The Eagle and the Worm

(2023)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2023

Runtime: 149 мин

Country: Mexico

Director: Guita Schyfter

Cast: Marcelo Alonso, Долорес Эредия, Germán Jaramillo, Angélica Aragón, Horacio Castelo, Laura Almela, Херардо Трехо Луна, Клодетт Майе, Alan Alarcón, Fabiana Perzabal

Plot

In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.