Camera Café, la película (2022) Poster

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6/10
Office satire with plenty of fun , creativity and hilarious sketches .
ma-cortes18 January 2023
Ernesto Sevilla's first feature film as a director with some very talented comic actors in its cast , it is a funny comedy that navigates between the grotesque Berlanga style and the more typically Spanish costumbrism , thanks to one of the most remembered Spaniard television fiction series : ¨Camera Café¨ (607 episodes, 2005-2009) by parodying different clerks at a noisy company . Showing several employers of a Spanish company are always filmed by a camera that it is on a café machine, and it shows their problems and funny moments of their lives. This successful show getting astounding prime time ratings in Spain at the past time . Quesada, Julián and Cañizares, among many others, meet again in front of the coffee machine to face one of the great crises of the company , the appointment of Quesada (Arturo Valls) as their director. The choral cast is maintained, but the focus is on the role of Arturo Valls, an escaped , tacky, pathetic sales manager , he is the leader who risks closing his company in a sales competition with the Portuguese delegation, led by Victoria de la Vega (Ana Milán) .

Camera Café series led ¨Prime Time¨ on Spanish television between 2005 and 2009, showing an original vision of life in an office through conversations around a coffee machine. On this occasion, the office expands and the camera enters the rest of the corridors of the company, studies , desks , and even the lives of the characters themselves . Arturo Valls affirms that the key was to maintain the essence and the original Camera Café is here , going on its main essence . The roles are still very stupid and continue to show their miseries , but this time the stakes are raised. The film is acceptable , although baffling dialog and some situations sound artificial , as well as stilted at times , and the stories are often too silly and infantile .

The founding , original cast of the hit series once again repeat their roles : Arturo Valls, Ana Milan, Esperanza Pedreño, Joaquin Reyes, Luis Varela, Marta Belenguer, Alex O'Dogherty, Carolina Cerezuela and other coffee drinkers , joining the film in other characters , such as : Manuel Galiana as the chief, Javier Botet as the new accountant, and Ingrid Garcia-Jonsson as Quesada's daughter, in addition to other stellar appearances such as Karina, Ibai Llanos , Jorge Usón or Andy and Lucas . Flashes of genius mixed with popular gags that you may or may not have liked are now better channeled , polished and ready to entertain a wider audience thanks to professional direction from Ernesto Sevilla , who also directed in similar style 11 episodes of the series ¨Capitulo 0¨ written by Miguel Esteban, Joaquín Reyes and also starred by Arturo Valls , Joaquín Reyes , Ernesto Sevilla, Javier Botet .
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