Despite Everything

Despite Everything
Release poster
SpanishA pesar de todo
Directed byGabriela Tagliavini
Screenplay by
  • Eric Charles Wilkinson
  • Eugene Rhee
  • Helen Rhee
  • Teresa Fernández-Valdés
  • Gabriela Tagliavini
Story by
  • Eric Charles Wilkinson
  • Eugene Rhee
  • Helen Rhee
Produced by
  • Eugene Rhee
  • Helen Rhee
  • Eric Charles Wilkinson
  • Teresa Fernández-Valdés
  • Ramón Campos
Starring
CinematographyKiko de la Rica
Edited byJosé Manuel Jiménez
Music byJoaquim Badia
Production
companies
  • Bambú Producciones
  • Cinephile Pictures
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • 16 March 2019 (2019-03-16) (Málaga)
  • 3 May 2019 (2019-05-03) (Netflix)
Running time
78 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Despite Everything (Spanish: A pesar de todo) is a 2019 Spanish comedy film directed by Gabriela Tagliavini and starring Blanca Suárez, Macarena García, Amaia Salamanca, and Belén Cuesta .[1] The film premiered at the Málaga Film Festival on 16 March 2019,[2][3] and released on Netflix on 3 May 2019, becoming the most-watched Spanish Netflix original film of that year.[4][5]

Plot

Before the reading of their mother's will, four estranged sisters find out that the man they've known as their father is not and each one has a different father. Their mother, Carmen, left a video testament in which she reveals her secret, and as a last wish and condition of receiving their inheritance tells her daughters to find their biological fathers, providing only the names of her former lovers. However, if one of them chooses not to do so, the inheritance is forfeited for all.

The siblings live separate lives and are opposites of each other. Sara is an accomplished magazine editor in New York City; Lucia, the youngest, is a discontented nonconformist engaging in sexual escapades; Sofía is an artist and lesbian with commitment issues; and Claudia is conservative, hiding that her husband left her and coping with it by popping pills and drinking wine excessively. Compelled to tolerate each other, the four embark on a road trip to procure DNA samples of the men, discover their fathers, and claim their inheritance.

Cast


References

  1. ^ "Crítica de 'A pesar de todo'" [Review of 'A pesar de todo']. Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  2. ^ "A pesar de todo". Festival de Málaga (in Spanish). 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  3. ^ "'A pesar de todo', una comedia producida por Netflix para las tardes del domingo" ['A pesar de todo', a comedy produced by Netflix for Sunday afternoons]. Sur (in Spanish). 16 March 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. ^ Aguilar, Carlos (29 April 2019). "TRAILER: 'A Pesar de Todo' Is a Road Trip Comedy About Sisters Searching for Their Biological Dads". Remezcla. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Despite Everything (A Pesar de Todo)". New on Netflix–USA–. 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2021.


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