| Lord, Give Me Patience | |
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| Spanish | Señor, dame paciencia |
| Directed by | Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo |
| Written by | Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Valentín Álvarez |
| Edited by | Verónica Callón |
| Music by | Julio de la Rosa |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures España |
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| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | €4.6 million |
| Box office | €6.7 million |
Lord, Give Me Patience (Spanish: Señor, dame paciencia) is a 2017 Spanish comedy film directed by Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo.
Plot
After the sudden death of his wife, Gregorio - a grumpy conservative Real Madrid fanatic - has to carry out her final wish: to spend a weekend with his children and their partners in Sanlúcar de Barrameda and throw her ashes into the Guadalquivir river.
Gregorio's daughter Sandra is married to Jordi, a Catalan and diehard Barcelona supporter, who wants to send Gregorio's future granddaughter to a bilingual Catalan-English school in Barcelona.
They are joined by Gregorio's other daughter, Alicia, who is going out with an anarchic hippy named Leo, and his son Carlos, to whom he has not spoken since Carlos announced he was homosexual six months ago. Carlos arrives with his boyfriend Eneko, a Basque of Senegalese origin, far from the ideal partner Gregorio would have envisioned for his son.
This trip to the south of Spain puts this dysfunctional family's capacity for forgiveness to the test, and sees them forced to accept each other, warts and all.
Cast
- Jordi Sánchez as Gregorio
- Rossy de Palma as Maria
- Megan Montaner as Sandra
- Silvia Alonso as Alicia
- Eduardo Casanova as Carlos
- David Guapo as Jordi
- Andrés Velencoso as Alejandro
- Paco Tous as Padre Salcedo
- Salva Reina as Leo
- Boré Buika [es] as Eneko
- Antonio Dechent as Guardia Civil
- Jorge Sanz as Hombre after
- Alberto Jo Lee [es] as Haruki
- Paula Gómez as Carmen
- María Cabrera as Pepa
- César Oliver as Luis
Reception
The film was a commercial success in Spain, being the second most watched film of the first half of 2017.
However, it received mixed-to-poor reviews from critics. Jordi Costa [es], writing for El País, complained of the film's lack of comic timing, and added, "The figure of a policeman, who bellows 'Gibraltar is Spanish!' reflects the type of viewer for this kind of product." ABC gave the film two stars out of five, criticising the "vulgar metaphor" of using various characters to reflect "Spain today", but notes that such films often have more commercial than critical success.
See also
References
- Brito Nieves, María de la Candelaria (11 December 2021). "'Señor, dame paciencia': fecha de estreno y actores de la serie de Atresplayer Premium". Qué!.
- "Señor, dame paciencia". Catálogo de Cinespañol. ICAA. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- "Taquilla España: 2017". Premios Óscar Latinos (in European Spanish). 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
- SensaCine, Señor, dame paciencia: Críticas de prensa, retrieved 2017-09-03
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