My girlfriend and I had been wanting to watch this movie for some time, since we're lesbians that love representation, so we were very excited. We ended up severely disappointed.
So many plot holes. Sub-plots that made no sense, nor contributed anything. Characters that were pointless. Drama that happened out of nowhere and was resolved just as fast, without any sort of explanation.
The only thing we liked were the lesbian grandmas, who ended up being side-characters in their own movie, which ended up focusing on selfish and messy characters. Very disappointing.
Plot summary
2019, Edinburgh (Scotland). Eva is a Spanish successful lawyer who is promised to marry Stuart, heir of the aristocratic and wealthy clan Macdonald. But the same day that they announce the engagement, she receives a call phone of her grandmother Sofía to make another announce: her incoming wedding with Celia, her lifelong friend. Taking it as a serious danger for her plans to have an important place in the world because the Macdonald's conservative morality (in the hope to have a normal life faraway of her eccentric family),Eva moves Lanzarote in Canary Islands (west to Africa but belonging Spain) in an attempt to prevent the wedding. Helped by a stranger after to lose the bus at the airport, Eva backs home where she reunites with Sofía, Celia and Perla, Eva's mentally disabled cousin who lives in the house cared by her aunt Sofía. At the same time that Eva's mother Natasha appears to support Sofía with the wedding, the family is surprised by the visit of Said, Eva's stranded brother who has converted to Islam to marry Salima. While Celia talks with the town priest Bienvenido trying for convincing to officiate the wedding and revealing that Pope Francisco approves the union after she met when visited Rome time ago, Eva learns that the stranger who helped her is Jorge, Celia's late son who works as anthropologist in Virunga (Congo),meeting him by first time after nine years ago. More used to treat with gorillas than humans, Jorge is an outcast and unsure young man who deals with Eva and Bienvenido to stop the wedding, specially after Celia's claiming about Pope Francisco, with the opposition of Nathasha and Said. However, Jorge starts to change the idea seeing Celia's happiness, facing Eva about the real reasons to stop the wedding. As if it not were enough, bad news appear to complicate the situation: Said and Bienvenido face each other by their religions, and despite Eva's will asking secrecy, an always clueless Celia accepts to be interviewed in the local TV channel to announce the wedding. When the own Eva starts to doubt of her feelings about Jorge, in the island appear Stuart and his mother Camilla after to be revealed by BBC that Stuart's father Sebastian has escaped to Barbados after making a currency flight to steal millions and millions of euros. With the situation out of any control, Sofía finally cancels the wedding, disappointed with Celia. But then, after the interview is broadcast on TV, Bienvenido receives a very special call phone of the bishop about it.
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Confusing and surprisingly (disappointingly) straight
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Scenery is beautiful
And most of the cast convincing apart from the one who played Celia, a grotesque performance, way over the top.
Also the main character, a lawyer is utterly wrong for the role and her evolution as a more caring person never believable.
That and along with the son of one of the main characters who goes through a transformative evolution at the speed of a bullet.
Too much slapstick and faux snobbery and a couple of other characters (the supposedly gay grandson marries a Muslim woman?) as filler with no purpose, much shouty bits and slapstick add up to an over the top movie which should have been a whole pile better.
The dialogue races and with subtitles it's hard to follow but overall not missing much.
I'd like more movies about old women but this would never be part of my collection. 5/10
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A caricature of insincerity vs true acceptance
I watched this movie yesterday and I really liked it. I don't think it was made to be realistic, instead I saw it like a caricature of us, humans. We crave for safety and order, but we also crave for love and acceptance. These things are often at odds, because each of us is a well of creativity and unpredictability. When we try to have a very orderly, predictable life we often need to lie, to others and ourselves.
I don't think this movie is a about sexual chemistry and things like that. I think it's about love and acceptance. It's about true stability, not about being able to predict how the future will be like, but the ability to know that some people will not abandon us, even when we make terrible mistakes. Instead, they'll try to understand. That's true security. I think this movie is about the most important topic of all: to be true to oneself. And it treats the subject in a light manner. Not a perfect movie, but I liked watching it!