A Perfect Couple

A Perfect Couple (1998)

Una pareja perfecta

Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homosexual poet who can barely manage on his own. From this moment on, Lorenzo juggles his strange line of work with the life he leads alongside his long-suffering wife and his secret encounters with Faustina, his lover. Everything goes awry from one day to the next due, amongst other things, to some compromising photos and an unexpected funeral.

Date of release
1998-06-12
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Francesc Betriu

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Fotogramas de Plata for best leading actor (film)

A Perfect Couple is a 1998 Spanish comedy film directed by Francesc Betriu from a screenplay by Rafael Azcona based on the novel Diario de un jubilado by Miguel Delibes which stars Antonio Resines and José Sazatornil "Saza". The film proved to be a critical failure and a commercial flop.

Production

Written by Rafael Azcona, the screenplay is an adaptation of the 1995 novel Diario de un jubilado by Miguel Delibes. The film is a Lolafilms, Cartel, and Vía Digital production.

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