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Don't Call It Love… Call It XXX

2011 Spanish film

Don't Call It Love… Call It XXX[1] (Spanish: No lo llames amor... llámalo X) is a 2011 Spanish romantic comedy film directed by Oriol Capel. Its ensemble cast features Mariano Peña, Adriana Ozores, Javier Gutiérrez, Kira Miró, Julián López, Ana Polvorosa, Javier Mora, Eduardo Gómez, Fernando Otero, and Paco León.

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Plot

Aging director Pepe Fons decides to shoot a swang song film: a pornographic spoof of the Spanish Civil War, assembling a crew full of pathetic characters. Three love stories thereby come to surface during the shooting of the film.[2][3]

Cast

Production

The film is an Antena 3 Films, Vértice Cine and Producciones Aparte production.[5]

Release

The film screened at the Málaga Film Festival on 27 March 2011.[6] Distributed by Vértice Cine,[7] it was released theatrically in Spain on 6 May 2011. After one week and a half in theatres, it had grossed €0.7 million.[8] By the turn of June, it had passed the €1 million mark.[9]

Reception

Nuria Vidal of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, positively citing the recreations of popular old movies as a positive point while lamenting the presence of "some facile and unnecessary jokes".[3]

Javier Ocaña of El País pointed at the predominance in the film of a "sea of comicality far from any brilliance".[10]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hopewell, Jonathan (21 June 2011). "'Cousinhood' closes Japan with Only Hearts". Variety.
  2. [2]
    ""No lo llames amor, llámalo X", una comedia romántica en clave de porno". El Economista. 4 May 2011.
  3. [3]
    Vidal, Nuria (28 March 2011). "No lo llames amor... llámalo X". Fotogramas.
  4. [4]
    Maldivia, Beatriz (6 May 2011). "Estrenos de la semana | 6 de mayo | Sicarios de Dios, exorcistas y la guerra civil en versión porno". Espinof.
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    "No lo llames amor... llámalo X". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Una mirada al porno en 'No lo llames amor, llámalo X'". Málaga Hoy. Grupo Joly. 28 March 2011.
  7. [7]
    Brunet 2011, p. 80.
  8. [8]
    Rull, C. (17 May 2011). "Woody Allen, número 1 de taquilla con 'Midnight in Paris'". Cinemanía.
  9. [9]
    Brunet, Pau (2011). "La taquilla española no es un cuento chino" (PDF). Academia (180). Madrid: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. ISSN 2174-0097.
  10. [10]
    Ocaña, Javier (6 May 2011). "España y el sexo". El País.
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