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The Perfect Crime (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 52

Fresh: 44

Rotten:8

Average Rating: 7.1/10

Consensus: If you like your comedies wicked and pitch-black, El Crimen Perfecto delivers without flinching.

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Aug 19, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: Theatrical release: August 19, 2005 (NY/LA) Spanish iconoclast Alex de Iglesia continues to toy with genre conventions in this black comedy, offering up his characteristic social commentary in a... Theatrical release: August 19, 2005 (NY/LA) Spanish iconoclast Alex de Iglesia continues to toy with genre conventions in this black comedy, offering up his characteristic social commentary in a skewering of consumerist culture and the superficial values it perpetuates. Having garnered an international cult following with such films as Spanish spaghetti Western 800 BULLETS, and PERDITA DURANGO, starring Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem and based on the same novel as David Lynch's WILD AT HEART, the director again delivers a picture that will disturb even as it delights. Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is at the top of the heap at Yeyo's, the department store whose ladies department is his own small kingdom. A hit with customers and coworkers alike, the suave Rafael is able to sell anything to anyone, and seems a shoe-in for store manager. But things don't go exactly as planned, and Rafael is beaten out by rival Don Antonio (Luis Varela) in menswear. When Don Antonio mysteriously disappears, Rafael is the most likely suspect, and one person knows the secret that could bring him down. That person is Lourdes, a coworker who has loved Rafael from afar for years, and the one woman he has not bedded due to her less-than-stunning physical attributes. Forced to submit to her will, Rafael is subjected to a litany of affronts to his womanizing, egocentric sensibilities, including Lourdes's rapacious sexual appetites, a coerced meeting with Lourdes's eccentric family (one of the film's most hilarious sequences), and ultimately a very public wedding. Rafael's mental stability begins to deteriorate as he conjures various ways of offing his new bride, but the outcome is one that no one could ever have predicted. Ultimately sympathetic to both Lourdes and Rafael, mere products of capitalism's pervasive ideology, the film maintains its madcap buoyancy throughout, allowing it to maintain its hilarity along with its prescience. [More]

Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Luis Varela, Monica Cervera, Enrique Villen

Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Luis Varela, Monica Cervera, Enrique Villen, Fernando Tejero, Kira Miro

Director: Alex De La Iglesia

Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Screenwriter: Alex De La Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarria
Composer: Roque Banos
Studio: Vitagraph Films

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An outburst of filmic inventiveness and a nicely convoluted plot with elements of outright fantasy, nearly all of which works.

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11/12/08
Ken Hanke
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Jonathan Holland
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12/06/05
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12/06/05
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Scattered clever moments do not a good dark comedy make.

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12/02/05
Paul Doro
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Long on outrageous style but short on real laughs.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
11/18/05
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

A story that begins as farce but that evolves into something approaching satirical profundity.

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11/18/05
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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This Spanish-language romp is a delightful send-up of retail culture, movie thrillers and the eternal 'ladies' man' facing his just deserts.

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11/18/05
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Toledo is hilarious as Rafael.

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11/18/05
Bill Harris
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My advice is to choose the first half, where things are really funny until they aren't.

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11/18/05
Rick Groen
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Shrug off the shaky philosophy and instead savor the film's snarkier elements.

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11/17/05
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

[J]ust cuz a movie has subtitles doesn't make it deep or meaningful or even worth your time...

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11/17/05
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

If twisted noir novelist Jim Thompson had scripted the Jerry Lewis vehicle 'Who's Minding the Store?,' the result might have been something like this...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
11/07/05
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

The Perfect Crime is an outrageous fiesta of decadence.

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10/17/05
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News
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10/08/05
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An outrageous comedy of errors set at a Madrid department store.

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10/07/05
Wesley Morris
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A worthwhile and fairly amusing effort.

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09/26/05
Marjorie Baumgarten
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