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Marbella
18th June 2006, 12:37 AM
"La vida es como los pimientos de Padrón, a veces pica ... y a veces no."

Just watched this charming and often funny film set in a Barcelona suburb. There are various stories that interlink through the patronage of the local bar and it is well worth seeing. The genius that is Ferran Adriá makes an appearance as himself too! Perhaps this should go in the Cuisine from Spain section.

http://www.filmax.com/galeria_imagenes/19535.jpg


http://www.tapaslapelicula.com/
catavino
23rd June 2006, 12:09 PM
What's the theme or story line is it like the movie Smoke (http://imdb.com/title/tt0114478/)?
Greg
23rd June 2006, 12:25 PM
By the way, if anyone is in Barcelona (or will be visiting then), "Tapas" will be featured at the outdoor cinema Sala Montjuďc (http://www.salamontjuic.com/) on August 4th. For 4 Euros (plus 2 Euros if you want to rent a lawn chair) you can picnic on the lawn at the castle and watch the movie with a few hundred of your closest friends. :) I haven't been before, but this seems like a good time to check it out.
Marbella
23rd June 2006, 12:34 PM
What's the theme or story line is it like the movie Smoke (http://imdb.com/title/tt0114478/)?

Kind of, although it's not as deep a film as Smoke looks.

Tapas is a typical modern day Spanish film, a little off-beat, with unlikely but quite charming sub-plots...

Without spoiling the film for anyone (or putting anyone off!), it features:


a drug dealing pensioner whose husband is dying
the bar owner whose wife leaves him so he accidentally, and then secretly, employs an Oriental chef to run the one-man kitchen
an affair between an older woman and a much younger man
Marbella
23rd June 2006, 12:38 PM
By the way, if anyone is in Barcelona (or will be visiting then), "Tapas" will be featured at the outdoor cinema Sala Montjuďc (http://www.salamontjuic.com/) on August 4th. For 4 Euros (plus 2 Euros if you want to rent a lawn chair) you can picnic on the lawn at the castle and watch the movie with a few hundred of your closest friends. :) I haven't been before, but this seems like a good time to check it out.

A much better way to see it, how lovely that sounds Greg.

For anyone in Spain who wants to buy it, I bought it in a kiosk for about 11 euros, bundled with another DVD which I will probably never watch (Monster's Ball - Halle Berry).