Tapas (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 34 mins
- Language: Spanish
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 1st January 2004
- Starring: Elvira Mínguez, Angel de Andrés, María Galiana
- Directed by: Jose Corbacho, Juan Cruz
Plot Synopsis
Welcome to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, the other side of tourist-saturated Barcelona, where summer is in full swing, tempers are fraying and everybody's looking to get away. Shopkeeper Raquel (Elvira Mínguez) has suffered a very public separation and is searching for love on the internet; bar-owner Lolo (Ángel de Andrés) can't realize when he's onto a good thing and is slowly driving his wife-cum-short-order-cook to walk out both on him and the bar; César (Rubén Ochandiano) and Opo (Dario Paso) are planning to escape the drudgery of supermarket shelf-stacking for a bit of adventurous backpacking and Mariano (Alberto de Mendoza) is battling illness while his wife (María Galiana) finds imaginative means of making ends meet. Five interlocking stories of love, desperation, dependence and tolerance are expertly juggled by first time directors Corbacho and Cruz in a delightful bittersweet comedy where nothing is quite what it at first seems. While the title clearly alludes to the eponymous and varied Spanish dishes that come under the culinary umbrella of tapas - there's even a guest cameo from local lad and gastronomic wizard Ferran Adrià - the verb tapar suggests lifting the lid (in more ways than one) on a series of secrets that the expert ensemble cast are all trying to keep hidden from neighbours who pride themselve on knowing everything that's going on in their community.