Cachito (film) explained

Director:Enrique Urbizu
Cinematography:Alfredo Mayo
Music:Bingen Mendizábal
Editing:Pablo Blanco
Distributor:Líder Films
Country:Spain
Language:Spanish

Cachito is a 1996 Spanish road movie directed by Enrique Urbizu which stars Jorge Perugorría, Sancho Gracia, and Amara Carmona based on Arturo Pérez Reverte's story "Un relato de honor".

Plot

Set in southern Spain,[1] the plot follows 16-year-old Toñi, who flees from a brothel with help from truck driver Manolo.

Production

The film is an Origen PC and Aurum Producciones production. Shooting locations included the Madrid region and Tarifa.[2]

Release

The film was released theatrically in Spain on 8 March 1996.

Reception

Augusto Martínez Torres of El País found two flaws weighing down the film, namely an "excessive influence of the cartoon, with what this means of caricatured and simple" (with the film being a sort of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner vying for a Romani girl), and mainly "the lack of humanity and the excessive manichaeism of the characters".[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Jesús Ángel. González. Foundational Myths and National Identity in European Transnational Post-Westerns. Western American Literature. 54. 3. 277. 26843330. 2019.
  2. Web site: Enrique Urbizu lleva al cine 'Cachito', un relato de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. El País. 19 September 1995. Margot. Molina.
  3. Web site: Correcaminos, Coyote y la gitana. El País. Augusto. Martínez Torres. 16 March 1996.