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Searching for Oscar

2019 · 73 min

A wry, talky portrait of an eccentric man's peculiar ideas about cinema, amusing and gently thought-provoking rather than dramatic.

Directed by
Octavio Guerra
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Óscar Peyrou, Alfonso Quiñones, Carlos Francisco Elías
Tagline
The film about the critic who does not watch the films
Overview
Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar method: in his opinion, it is not really necessary to watch the films since it is possible to judge them simply by looking at their promotional poster.

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Directed by
Octavio Guerra
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Óscar Peyrou, Alfonso Quiñones, Carlos Francisco Elías
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    Themes
    • art
    • obsession
    • identity
    • media
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    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour4
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness2
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight3

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Octavio Guerra
    Written by
    Octavio Guerra
    Starring
    Óscar Peyrou, Alfonso Quiñones, Carlos Francisco Elías, Jesús García Cívico, Ximo Rochera, Sara Trujillo, Javier Díaz Valero, Antonio Weinrichter
    Cinematography
    Víctor Montoya Casaña
    Runtime
    73 min
    Country
    Spain
    Languages
    Spanish

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