’53 Sundays’: a failed date with the brothers | Culture | EUROtoday

Just a couple of months after the premiere of My buddy Evaby which Cesc Gay gave wings to an exquisite feminine character within the sneakers of actress Nora Navas, the Catalan director, screenwriter and playwright adapts his stage work for Netflix 53 Sundays. The outcome, regardless of going hand in hand with 4 performers who dominate comedy like few others – Javier Cámara, Carmen Machi, Javier Gutiérrez and Alexandra Jiménez – doesn’t fairly take off, and the variation stays in a flat theatrical translation, excessively oral and with a staging that fails to circulation.

In 53 Sundaysthe director of Truman It recreates a date between three brothers who’ve to satisfy to speak about their aged father. The place of the assembly is the home of considered one of them, the small and unsuccessful one (Javier Cámara), married to the mistress of ceremonies (Alexandra Jiménez), who additionally acts as a direct interlocutor with the viewer whereas she enjoys the reunions and disagreements between her husband and her brothers: the eldest, a complicated particular person with cash (Javier Gutiérrez), and the center one, studious and perfectionist (Carmen Machi).

The principal drawback with this comedy is that, just like the quote it narrates, it will get caught in its loops on itself till it turns into very static and repetitive, mechanical in its verbiage. Cesc Gay is a type of administrators who masters the phrase, and who additionally directs his actors very nicely. But on this case, and regardless of the engaging forged of 53 Sundaysthe 4 performers appear considerably constricted with out the background of their characters and their quarrels rising in a convincing means.

Everything guarantees on this adaptation for Netflix, however midway by means of the movie, when the failed date between the three brothers lastly happens, the household catharsis that the viewer expects stays solely phrases. 53 Sundays it turns into redundant and, regardless of the unhappy and harsh conclusion of its remaining minutes, the viewer has already taken an excessive amount of distance by then.