Polyamory for Dummies // Poliamor para principiantes
Director: Fernando Colomo
Script: Fernando Colomo, Casandra Macías Gago, Marina Maesso
Producer: Álvaro Longoria
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Quim Àvila, María Pedraza, Lola Rodríguez, Toni Acosta
Spain, 2021, 97 min, Spanish with Hebrew and English subtitles
Festivals:
BCN Film Fest 2021
In association with the Embassy of Spain
Manu is a loser whose dream is to become a successful youtuber with the help of his father, who is bored with his long term relationship with Manu’s mother. Manu is in love with Amanda, a polyamourous pansexual who is leading several relationship simultaneously – with a young transgender woman, a suave guy, and an older bourgeois couple with whom she has a child. Manu is head over heels in love with Amanda and will go to great lengths to please his first love, who has rocked his world completely. But can he really adopt Amanda’s lifestyle? At the same time Manu’s parents are going to have to face changes brought into their dreary life.
Spanish director Fernando Colomo presents an entertaining feather light comedy about sex and love and asks whether we are as open minded as we think we are.
It is worth mentioning Maria Pedraza, known to Israeli crowds from her many Netflix appearances such as in “Elite”, “Toy boy” and “Money heist”, in this film it’s easy to see why everyone falls in love with her.