Writer-directors Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri have penned an amusing script and, as directors, inject a delicate human texture into the story's intermixing of capricious zaniness, frank sensuality and Mideast politics.
Only Human
They seemed a nice, normal family... then he met them!
2004 · 1h 33m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Teresa De Pelegrí
,
Dominic Harari
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Only Human
Overview
A mismatched couple discovers that whatever can go wrong will go wrong during a family visit.
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Top critics, in their words
A smart and dark comedy from Spain, Only Human manages to say cogent things about the nature of intolerance and love while being fitfully hilarious.
There's a political and social clash at its core, but the laughter comes from a deeper, human place (see title).
A familiar situation of a beloved daughter bringing her intended home to meet the folks is pushed to sublimely silly extremes.
A Spanish comedy that isn't quite as frenzied or farcical as its husband-and-wife writer-director team clearly intended it to be.
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