Rivals (2008 Spanish film)

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Rivals

Spanish	Rivales

Directed by	Fernando Colomo
Screenplay by	Joaquín Oristrell Inés París
Produced by	Luis de Val
Starring	Rosa Maria Sardà Ernesto Alterio Jorge Sanz Juanjo Puigcorbé María Pujalte Goya Toledo Santi Millán Kira Miró Gonzalo de Castro Javier Cifrián
Cinematography	Antonio Lara María Lara
Edited by	José Luis Alcaine
Music by	Juan Bardem
Production company	Media Films Colomo Producciones
Distributed by	On Pictures
Release date	27 June 2008 (2008-06-27) (Spain)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Spain
Languages	Spanish Catalan
Budget	€50,000

Rivals (Spanish: Rivales) is a 2008 Spanish comedy-sport film directed by Fernando Colomo and written by Joaquín Oristrell and Inés París. The plot follows an Under-12 Spanish football tournament.^[1]^[2]

Plot

When two youth football teams from Madrid and Barcelona with a longstanding rivalry reach the finals of the Youth Spanish Cup, the tension explodes on and off the field. The players from both teams share a bus and hotel with each other and with their coaches (who are in love but hide it), parents, a crazy grandmother, reporters and even pets. Guillermo (played by Ernesto Altiero) and his son Xavier find their relationship tested as Guillermo remembers his own failure to make the championship in his youth, while Xavier chooses his girlfriend over football. In director Fernando Colomo's own words, this is a "road trip movie about human relationships."^[3]

Cast

Rosa Maria Sardà as Rosa
Ernesto Alterio as Guillermo
Jorge Sanz as Jorge
Juanjo Puigcorbé as Fernando
María Pujalte as María
Goya Toledo as Maribel
Santi Millán as Xavier
Kira Miró as Sara
Gonzalo de Castro as Carlos
Javier Cifrián as Pepe

Reception

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed Rivals to be a "disappointing" comedy for Colomo.^[4]

References

^ "Rivales (2008) - El cine en". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 2014-01-28.(in Spanish)
^ Cahiers du cinéma España. Caimán Ediciones. January 2008. p. 49. (in Spanish)
^ "Rivales - 2008 El Cin En". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ Holland, Jonathan (5 August 2008). "Rivals". Variety.

External links

Rivals at IMDb

v t e Fernando Colomo
Films directed	What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978) The Knight of the Dragon (1985) La vida alegre (1987) Going South Shopping (1989) Alegre ma non troppo (1994) The Stolen Years (1998) South from Granada (2003) Rivals (2008) Isla bonita (2015) The Tribe (2018) Polyamory for Dummies (2021)
Films written	The Things of Love (1989)

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