Original title: “Los amantes pasajeros”
Spain – Year: 2013 – Running time: 90 mins
CFC member feedback for this film: Rating: 
(2.96 from 27 responses)
- ‘Excellent’: 3 votes
- ‘Very good’: 10 votes
- ‘Good’: 5 votes
- ‘Satisfactory: 2 votes
- ‘Poor’: 6 votes
- 1 slip returned without a tick, but a comment of “Dreadful!!”
We begin with a brief prologue on the ground beside the emblematically named Peninsula Airways’ airbus. Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas make cameo appearances as a pregnant wife and her uxorious husband, working respectively as a baggage truck driver and chocks inspector. They’re involved in a minor accident beside the shiny, pristine plane before cheerfully leaving another ground staff member to clear up. The great Almodovar combines subtlety and frivolity in a Wildean manner to comment upon Spain’s current moral and economic crisis.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Broken Embraces (2009) / Volver (2006) / All About My Mother (1999)
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Theatrical Trailer:
I didn’t leave a slip for this film but I would have marked it as ‘poor’. I thought it was silly, faintly unpleasant and completely lacking in humour. Rubbish in other words. John Denniss