• A billionaire decides to produce a film hoping to pass on to posterity.

  • It offers big names of the 7th Art embodied with delight by Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez.

  • "Official competition" delights with its fierce humor around accomplice stars.

Working with the stars, or rather seeing how they work, is what Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn offer in

Official Competition

.

The Argentinian directors of

Citizen of Honor

propose to take a look behind the scenes in the company of a filmmaker and two actors played by Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez.

They were hired by a billionaire who wants to produce a film in the hope of passing on to posterity.

The creative process of cinema is put through the mill of fierce satire.

"Addressing issues such as the process of artistic creation, the degree of professional competence, egos, the need for prestige and recognition, the different schools of acting and drama, and the tensions between artists from backgrounds and different paths fascinated us," explain the directors in a note of intent.

They put the chiseled dialogues and the extreme situations on the program of their game of massacre.

Everything for Penélope

One thinks of Ruben Ostlund, winner of two Palmes d'or for

The Square

and

Without Filter

, for the way in which Argentinian filmmakers put back to back auteur cinema and “mainstream” films with infectious enthusiasm.

A particularly successful sequence with a very large rock is one of the best moments in

official competition

.

The film boasts a trio of actors who have tons to delight the viewer.

Penélope Cruz as an excessive but gifted filmmaker steals the show from her partners.

His eccentric performance puts the zygomatics to the test and alone justifies discovering this small happiness of film.

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