The Europeans (2020)
4/10
Very mediocre and boring melodrama about two youngsters at the end 50s' Ibiza
20 July 2022
Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel (Raúl Arévalo) and Antonio (Juan Diego Botto) , both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. Along the way , they have fun and fall in love with foreign girls . But on the island, nothing will be as they expected.

Holydays in the magic island of Ibiza where supposedly to take place a sympathetic and entertaining film about intimate romances and diversion . However , in Los Europeos (2020) find us a sad and tired drama with no interest enough , happening some incidents and misfortunes without the due attractiveness . While the irruption of a pregnancy modifies the tone of what until then was intended to be a generational comedy of nights and constant drunkenness , into a pseudodrama about "duties and obligations". The film avoids placing the protagonists in greater events than their own personal problems . The environment, society, the church, the civil guard do not influence the decisions nor do they transmit that necessary fear of punishment in the event of an abortion , at the time a terrible crime with strong penalty . The obvious budget limitations try to avoid the inevitable, that the environment that surrounds these characters bears little resemblance to the one photographed . Sour and little interesting script written by the considered to be one of the best writers of Spanish cinema , the deceased Rafael Azcona . Regularly directed by Víctor García León , son of a known and better filmmaker José Luis Garcia Sánchez . This "Los Europeos (2020)¨ achieved a number of awards and nominations such as : Nominee ASECAN Award Best Spanish Film , Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2021 ,Nominee CEC Award Best Actor : Raúl Arévalo ; Feroz Awards, ES 2021 Winner Feroz Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Juan Diego Botto , Nominee Feroz Award Best Actor in a Leading Role : Raúl Arévalo , Best Poster David de las Heras , Best Film: Comedy Enrique López Lavigne ; Goya Awards 2021 Nominee Goya Best Supporting Actor : Juan Diego Botto , Best Adapted Screenplay Bernardo Sánchez , Marta Castillo , Best Costume Design ; José María Forqué Awards 2021 Nominee Award Best Actor : Juan Diego Botto ; Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2020 Nominee Golden Biznaga Best Spanish Film Víctor García León ; Yago Awards 2021 Winner Impepinable Yago Juan Diego Botto .

It displays a colorful and evocative cinematography by Eva Díaz . As well as sensitive musical score by Selma Mutal , adding attractive songs . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Victor Garcia León , though it has some flaws and gaps . Vicente is a good writer and director who has made a few movies . His film debut was ¨Más pena que Gloria¨, a true portrait of adolescent impulses at the beginning of the century, following ¨Vete de mí¨, a very black dramatic family comedy that clung to a social reality that has been prolonged when some children unable to abandon the paternal house after 30 years. A segment of "Hay Motivo" and even ¨Selfie¨, a product that took advantage of the country's political situation to reflect, like a caricature, many of the paradigms of Spanish youth, and that deflated as its footage progressed, these flicks were capable of offering a critical view of the present and past more than Los Europeos (2020) . Victor Gárcia León also directing some TV series as "Hispania la leyenda", "Familia", " vota por Juan" and "Derecho a soñar" . Rating 4.5/10. Average dramedy.
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