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An elderly man sm itten with a girl who is no good for him. A shady young lady with a murky past. A dumb ex-legionnaire who, dressed in a bunny outfit, works for a debt collecting agency. Fickle fate has fused their lives into an explosive cocktail. Recently widowed, Nestor has become infatuated with Maribel, his cleaning lady’s daughter and wants to legalize their relationship at the earliest opportunity. But Maribel has plans to go to Barcelona to work on the S&M club run by her sister Angela. What’s more, she has fallen head over heels for Manolo, an ex-legionnaire, presently working as a debt collector, and dreams of an exciting, surprise-filled life at his side. On her sister’s advice, and further inspired by the thought of a juicy inheritance, Maribel marries Nestor, whom she does not expect to last long, especially if she gives him a good run for his money in the sack. Maribel already sees herself as a rich widow with Manolo at her side and the world at her feet. But, what is it they say about the best laid schemes of mice and men? It’s hard to choose between love and money when one aspires to both. But, what’s to be done if sugar daddy is disinclined to kick the bucket? Could this be the cue for someone to give him a helping hand? Manolo, for instance…? The plot soon thickens and, with the added ingredient of a pesky blackmailing detective, the leading players in this tragicomedy blunder towards an unexpected denouement. |
Ramón de España Renedo, born in Barcelona (1956) finished the Media Studies at the Bellaterra Faculty (Barcelona). He began working as a journalist with the underground press at the end of the seventies and published several books about music and six novels and several humorous essays books. He has been a regular contributor to the newspaper EL PAIS since 1990 and a columnist for a weekly satirical magazine. He collaborated on the screenplay for the film Last Evenings With Teresa (Ultimas Tardes con Teresa) , by Gonzalo Herralde, and wrote the two screenplays for TV-movies. After several years of seeing his books on the verge of becoming films, he decided to get behind the camera himself and wrote the screenplay The Perfect Wave (La Ola Perfecta) taken on board by the producer Luisa Matienzo. Kill me Tender (Haz Conmigo lo que Quieras) was written virtually simultaneously as a screenplay and a novel. STAR LINE took over the screenplay and decided that Ramón de España should be entrusted with the direction of his first film. The author considers cinema to be a new medium for something he has been doing all his life in the press, novels, essays, comics and television: telling stories. |
This story is a black comedy, and owes much to films as diverse as El Verdugo (Not On Your Life) by Berlanga, and Fargo, by the Coen brothers. It is a love story with a large dose of the grotesque. It could be told ”straight”, but then we would merely have an unnecessary remake of The Blue Angel. I prefer the story to have dramatic content within a humorous form, perhaps because it is a register I have used previously in my novels and with which I have always felt very comfortable. And not just in terms of style: I consider life to be a tragicomedy, with its horrendous and its hilarious moments. Consequently, opting for a single response (laughter or crying) when portraying life, produces an incomplete result. |
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