If they told you were going to die? . Would you change something in your life? - That is the question posed by this tragicomedy starring Kira Miró and Silva Reina. Dr. Ángeles (Kirá Miró) discovers a new method which says if people will live more or less than 5 years. However, things get complicated when Ángeles try it with her husband and she finds out that her husband has only a month to live. Then, Angeles and Luis (Salva Reina) attempts to resolve the situation, but things go wrong. But he doesn't feel depressed, he wants his wife to be happy. At the time, Luis asks her best friend (Antonio Pagudo) look after her when he die.
Four characters, two couple, join in a series of messes, emerged when doctor Angeles achieves a revolutionary scientific method predicting how much time a person has left to live in a five-year period , and it says to her husband he will die in less than one month. They're: Kira Miró (¨No lo llames amor..llámalo X¨, ¨Crimen Ferpecto¨), Salva Reina (¨Todos lo hacen¨, ¨Con quién viajas¨), Antonio Pagudo (¨Bajo terapia¨, ¨Por los pelos¨) and Eva Ugarte (¨reyes contra Santa¨, ¨El otro lado¨, "Mira lo que has hecho").
This silly comedy is full of surprises, but offering nothing special. Carolina Bassecourt's first film, in this story nothing is what it seems, and all the characters have something to hide, starring have come to make up for lost time and this means uncovering everyone's philias and phobias. The film has a weak link among its main component: the script. It tells us an uneven story that has a hard time getting into what the film itself proposes, potentially putting the viewer in serious trouble when it comes to entering the plot and its dynamics.
¨Cuánto me queda¨ adapts the play by Marta Buchaca (who is also in charge of scripting the film) of the same title, relies on comedy to make a close and heartfelt treatment of one of the most taboo topics that exist today: the near death due to cancer or other illness. A comedy that resides in the contrast when facing the life and death of the four characters that star in the film, and where uncomfortable situations are the great gag that predominates in the plot.
A directorial work that also involves the creation of a chemistry between the four leading actors, which, in the case is rarely able of going beyond the screen. This is the type of "theatricalized" productions, a few roles closed at an claustrophobic location, an usual trendy in the recent Spanish cinema , such as: ¨el Test¨, ¨El tiempo de los monstruos¨, and ¨Bajo Terapia¨, the later also star Eva Duarte and Antonio Pagudo, where the number of characters is so small and the scenery so limited, the differentiating factor is precisely how well-connected the cast is. The comedy and the situations that arise have to come from total harmony on the part of the actors, and they get partially their purports. Rting: 4.5/10.
