Mylove Lost

Mylove Lost
Spanish	Miamor perdido
Directed by	Emilio Martínez-Lázaro
Screenplay by	Clara Martínez-Lázaro Miguel Esteban
Starring	Michelle Jenner Dani Rovira
Cinematography	Juan Molina
Edited by	Ángel Hernández Zoido
Music by	Roque Baños
Production companies	Sony Pictures International Productions Discontinuo La Película AIE Impala Caos Films Lightbox Animation Studios
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia
Release dates	4 December 2018 (2018-12-04) (Paterna) 14 December 2018 (2018-12-14) (Spain)
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Mylove Lost (Spanish: Miamor perdido) is a 2018 Spanish romantic comedy film directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro from a screenplay by Clara Martínez-Lázaro and Miguel Esteban. It stars Michelle Jenner and Dani Rovira.

Plot

Upon falling romantically for each other, Mario and Olivia adopt a cat named Miamor (Mylove), only responsive when addressed in the Valencian language. As love fades, the cat seemingly disappears too. It turns out that the cat has been secretly taken care of by Mario, prompting a vicious response by Olivia when she finds about it.[1][2]

Cast

• Dani Rovira as Mario[3]
• Michelle Jenner as Olivia[3]
• Antonio Dechent[3]
• Vito Sanz[3]
• Antonio Resines[3]
• Santiago Alverú [ca][3]
• Will Shephard [es][3]
• Daniel Pérez Prada [es][3]
• Veki G. Velilla[3]
• Pablo Carbonell [es][3]
• Maite Sandoval [es][3]
• María Hinojosa[4]
• Pilar Calvo Morillas[4]
• Almar G. Sato[4]
• Andrea Noceda[4]
• Virginia Riezu[4]

Production

The screenplay was penned by Clara Martínez-Lázaro alongside Miguel Esteban.[3] The film is a Sony Pictures International Productions, Discontinuo La Película AIE, Impala, Caos Films, and Lightbox Animation Studios production, and it had the participation of RTVE.[5] Filming began on 9 October 2017.[6] Shooting locations included the Madrid region.[6]

Release

The film was presented at the Paterna's Kinépolis multiplex as a part of the 'Antonio Ferrandis' Film Festival slate.[2] Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia,[7] it was theatrically released in Spain on 14 December 2018.[8]

Reception

Janire Zurbano of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that despite having "ups and downs, as well as an arsenal of hackneyed gags", "it is inevitable" to leave the theatre with a smile.[9]

Javier Ocaña of El País considered that the film "is always better directed than written", with Martínez-Lázaro shining even in slapstick comedy.[10]

Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, warning in advance to be "biologically unable to laugh at a [single] joke from the bland comedian [Rovira]" (contrasting in the film to inherent comic charms displayed by Jenner), also writing that the film ends up falling apart, and "again forgets that the key to any good romantic comedy is also to take care of the mise-en-scène and the sense of rhythm".[11]

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2018

References

1. "Estrenos del 14 de diciembre de 2018". Fotogramas. 14 December 2018.
2. Barbeta, Amparo (4 December 2018). "Dani Rovira se atreve con el valenciano". Levante-EMV.
3. Jimeno, Diego (26 July 2021). "Dani Rovira y Michelle Jenner se encuentran en 'Miamor perdido'". Diez Minutos.
4. "Les pel·lícules de la setmana" (PDF). L'enllaç dels anoiencs (818): 55. 20 December 2018.
5. "Miamor perdido, Yuli y Trote". Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. 14 December 2018.
6. "Rodajes" (PDF). Academia (229). Madrid: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España: 99. 2018. ISSN 2174-0097.
7. "El director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro preestrena la cinta 'Mi amor perdido' en el Festival Antonio Ferrandis de Paterna". El Periódico de Catalunya. 3 December 2018.
8. Rull, Carles (20 December 2018). "Aquaman, Spider-Man y Mary Poppins, los grandes estrenos de Navidad". 20minutos.es.
9. Zurbano, Janire (14 December 2018). "Miamor perdido". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
10. Ocaña, Javier (14 December 2018). "La inmadurez sentimental". El País.
11. Lombardo, Manuel J. (15 December 2018). "Gato por liebre". Diario de Sevilla.