Sin noticias de Dios (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Agustín Díaz Yanes

Guionista:

Agustín Díaz Yanes (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 noviembre 2001 (Spain)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

Heaven and hell are on Earth, and they're wearing heels.

Plot:

Two angels, one from the heaven (Victoria Abril) and one from the hell (Penélope Cruz), come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Plot Keywords:

Angel | Bible Quote | Beautiful Woman | Gun | Conspiracy

Premios:

2 wins & 18 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Brilliant! Abril and Cruz are dynamite!

Reparto

Victoria Abril	...	Lola Nevado
Penélope Cruz	...	Carmen Ramos
Demián Bichir	...	Manny
Fanny Ardant	...	Marina D'Angelo
Juan Echanove	...	Supermarket manager
Gael García Bernal	...	Davenport
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba	...	Police chief
Cristina Marcos	...	Police officer
Gemma Jones	...	Nancy
Bruno Bichir	...	Eduardo
Elena Anaya	...	Pili
Peter McDonald	...	Henry
Alicia Sánchez	...	Checkout girl
Luis Tosar	...	Police officer
Elsa Pataky	...	Waitress in Hell

También conocida como:

Bendito infierno (Mexico) (Spain)
Don't Tempt Me (USA)
Nessuna notizia da Dio (Italy)
No News from God (USA)
Sans nouvelles de Dieu (France)
Without News of God (USA)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some violence and sexual content.

Duración:

Brazil:95 min | Colombia:112 min | USA:112 min

País:

Spain | Italy | France | Mexico

Idioma:

Español | Inglés | Francés | Latin

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Clasificación:

Netherlands:12 | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-15 | Philippines:R-13 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | USA:R | Australia:MA

Compañía:

Altavista Films

Trivialidades:

The photo Lola (Victoria Abril) puts into the album shows the mother of Manny. The woman in this photo is the actress Pilar Bardem.

Citas:

[on Carmen]
Lola Nevado: Bad people never let you down, because bad people never change

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Goodfellas (1990)

Brilliant! Abril and Cruz are dynamite!

Many observers have noted that at first glance on paper one might think this is a Pedro Almodovar film, what with Victoria Abril cast in it, among other things. Well, I haven't seen too much of Almodovar's work, and I knew nothing about director Augustin Diaz Yanes when I entered the theatre to see this film. But I wonder, did Almodovar show such promise so early in his career? From the first few minutes I was captivated by the movie and I stayed enthralled throughout. By the time Penelope Cruz was dancing around to "Kung Fu Fighting" I knew this was a rare film indeed (and no, it's no rip-off of 'Pulp Fiction,' either!)

For all it's audaciousness, the premise has been used many times before. Like 'Paradise Lost,' the battlefield is Heaven, Hell and Earth. But the specifics are a little more prosaic: angels from Heaven and Hell fight for their survival over the soul of a rather ordinary mortal, a not-to-bright or personable boxer. Heaven and Hell are presented as distinctly mortal-like places--Heaven is nice, but hardly the celestial paradise we envision, and Hell is unpleasant, but nothing nearly as bad as Dante imagined. The two places are run like competing businesses, it would seem, and the CEO God (and presumably Satan in his own realm) is AWOL--apparently he's too tired or disinterested to bother with the details of running the place, leaving that task up to lesser creatures. Right now Hell seems to have the upper hand. Heaven is somehow almost bankrupt and may well go under if they can't snag this one earthbound soul, the aforementioned boxer, who fate has cast in some great future role that we never fully understand. But there's trouble brewing in Hell, too, and even though they've got the advantage over Heaven at the moment, there are internecine power struggles to worry about there. So each each side dispatches an agent to try to win over Manny, this boxer who unwittingly holds the fate of this world and those beyond in his hands.

That's where Abril and Cruz come in, and they are just a joy to watch for the almost two hours this flick runs. Abril is Lola the heavenly angel who ingratiates herself in Manny's life as his wife, and Cruz is Carmen, who poses as his long-lost cousin (Manny isn't the brightest crayon in the box so he can be convinced that all of a sudden he has a five-year marriage he doesn't remember.) Lola and Carmen thrust and parry throughout the film, but on a surprisingly cordial level--Carmen isn't as bad as one would expect a denizen of Hell to be and neither woman seems possessed of any otherworldly powers; they go about their business in a very earthly way. You combine a great script, two outstanding performances and excellent direction and not surprisingly you get a first-rate film, as good as any I've seen this year. This is not quite Orson Welles and 'Citizen Kane' here, but it put me in mind of it, it's that good.