La comunidad
feature film, 2000
DIRECTED BY: Álex de la Iglesia
CAST:
Carmen Maura,
Terele Pavez,
Eduardo Antuna
SCRIPT:
Alex de la Iglesia,
Jorge Guerricaechevarria
Synopsis:
Julia is in real estate business and is quite energetic in her job. She
decides to use a very attractive apartment in a house in order to bring a little
life into her marriage. While she amuses herself on a water bed with her husband
Ricardo, a rain of cockroaches fall on them from a hole in the ceiling. Soon,
firemen break into the apartment above them and find a decomposing body of an
old man. Later that night, Julia breaks into the apartment of the old man. There
she finds 15 million dollars that he won in a lottery, hidden in the floor.
While she exits the dead man’s apartment, carrying the money in trash bags, she
runs into the neighbor Ramon. He is suspicious of Julia. Soon it becomes evident
that all inhabitants of house knew about the hidden money. It was their
agreement to share the money after the old man’s death. But, when Julia appeared
the plan went wrong. Soon, Julia is invited to a party organized by the Cuban
charmer Oswaldo. There is a gallery of grotesque characters, inhabitants of the
house… Julia’s unusual and unanimous neighbors are determined in their attempt
get the money, which they believe is only theirs…
color, 106 min