'Stories not to tell': entertaining puzzle of sex, lies and good actors thanks to Cesc Gay

Cesc Gay likes to observe human nature, and even dog nature, through the magnifying glasses of a half smile and humor.

Always with intelligence, and therefore empathy, the director of

is also attracted to the most pathetic and shameful side of behaviors that, deep down, reconcile us with our imperfection.

His new film,

focuses on a cinema with a choral and theatrical vocation, of characters from the liberal professions lost in sentimental and sexual tribulations.

Characters whose cheats and lies show them as lost as anyone.

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Stories not to tell

is a comedy made up of five independent stories performed by what is called a luxury cast.

Cesc Gay is a director who enjoys acting and it shows.

Chino Darín, Anna Castillo and Javier Rey interpret the first episode, the simplest and roundest.

A classic episode of entanglement followed by another about a couple (Antonio De la Torre and María León) who come up against their own prejudices when a friend who has had a sexual drought since their separation (Álex Brendemühl) meets an actress (Eva Kings) one night.

The traps and lies of age appear in the two stories that are interpreted, on the one hand, by Maribel Verdú, Alexandra Jiménez and Nora Navas —who give life to three actresses and friends accustomed to lies— and, on the other, that of José Coronado, a mature writer, and Alejandra Onieva, his young lover.

The last,

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Written by Gay himself along with his usual accomplice, Tomás Aragay, the worst that can be said about

is that it limits itself to gathering some camera pieces that don't quite have a magnet between them.

A set that, despite its ups and downs, is an example of that lightness that characterizes good comedies in which the sentimental and sexual life of its characters is precipitated by those embarrassing situations that, deep down, define us better than the heroic ones. .

STORIES NOT TO TELL 

Directed by:

Cesc Gay.

Performers:

Chino Darín, Anna Castillo, Antonio De la Torre, María León, Maribel Verdú, Alexandra Jiménez, Nora Navas, José Coronado, Quim Gutiérrez, Verónica Echegui.

Genre:

comedy.

Spain, 2022.

Duration:

99 minutes.

Premiere: November 25.

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