Family United (2013)
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest of them, who marries his pregnant girlfriend. Will hours of uncertainty, joy and euphoria back, but it's time to unite for a common good. Can all together to face the situation and erected winners heading?
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I've been trying to find this movie for about a week! I've watched it a few years ago when I was 15 or something and it stuck with me as a cool film but I couldn't remember any specific scene or an actor and I wasn't even sure that it was a Spanish movie. I only remembered the ending and Google couldn't help me at all. I actually scrolled my local movie festival's Facebook page 4 years back and finally found it just when I was about to give up and continue to live my life in darkness and misery! I must admit, the movie isn't an 8, it's really more like a strong 4 or 5, but I am just so happy that I found it!Seriously, it isn't that bad, I'm just pickier than I was 4 years ago. Go watch it! And write its name down somewhere, just in case!
Not necessarily a bad film but not a film I am impressed with, five brothers come together for a wedding during the 2010 world cup, Dad falls ill on the wedding day. The wedding gets put on hold and everything in between falls apart and everybody's personal issues comes in focus and gets resolved in 95 minutes its a bit melodramatic over written lacks wit or chemistry between the characters it felt like i was watching a Spanish TV pilot remake of Brothers & Sisters on the big screen.I tried to like this film but the characters became a bit annoying after 20 minutes of watching this film.
If Garry Marshall were to make a Spanish movie, this would be it. It is filled with those kind of stereo-typed characters that only exist in movies and TV shows. We have the aunt that smokes cigarettes while requiring an oxygen tank (it's supposed to be funny, don't ya know). The slow-adult that spouts words of wisdom that are supposed to makes us all sigh at his deepness unencumbered by thought. There's the little girl who is smarter than her father (isn't she just so precious). Each character is once removed from reality and each is dealing with their own particular problems which are all neatly resolved at the end. All this against the backdrop of a wedding, which itself is against the backdrop of the world cup. It's all cute and entertaining to a degree but really never fully engages you because you always know it's not real and could never be. Like watching a TV sitcom. For example, a wedding procession which occurs early in the film introduces many of the characters by having them dancing down the isle. It is preparing you for what is to come and it will make you squirm.
Highly recommend watching and be touched by this beautiful story involving these five brothers. In each of them we can identify someone of our family or any known family. In a bucolic landscape comes a little bit of everything. Joy, sorrow, struggle, melancholy and even a final of the World Cup. The message he is passing as some people sacrifice themselves for the happiness of others. Some people have a vagueness about the love between two people, I mean, a clear vision of what love is, and this is another ingredient of this beautiful movie. The representation of human feelings is shown throughout the movie. Practically secured tears in the end ... Do not miss!