Crimen Ferpecto [2004] dir Alex de la Iglesia

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Crimen ferpecto (2004)


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Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) is a 2004 black comedy Spanish film, directed by Álex de la Iglesia.

Guillermo Toledo ... Rafael González
Mónica Cervera ... Lourdes
Luis Varela ... Don Antonio Fraguas
Enrique Villén ... Comisario Campoy
Fernando Tejero ... Alonso
Javier Gutiérrez ... Jaime
Kira Miró ... Roxanne
Rosario Pardo ... Señora despistada
Gracia Olayo ... Concha
José Alias ... Matías
Penélope Velasco ... Susana
Montse Mostaza ... Helena (as Montserrat Mostaza)
Eduardo Gómez ... Taxista
Enrique Martínez ... Pepón
Alicia Andújar ... Desiree

When the film was released in the United States in 2005, the film was retitled El Crimen Perfecto, which translates to "The Perfect Crime". It should be noted that the original title was a deliberate error, as the film explains. In Croatia it was titled 'Ševac i njegov pijevac' which literally means "A fucker and his rooster".

There's a crazy lilt to Álex de la Iglesia's "El Crimen Perfecto," a cheerful little black comedy about sex, murder and the challenges and frustrations of working in retail. The picture is so confident in its lunacy that some of the funniest gags might not even make you laugh that much -- you become so attuned to the movie's cocked-eyebrow universe that you're not really sure what's normal anymore. When an 8-year-old girl announces at the family dinner table that she's pregnant (after having been raped, she claims, by her gym teacher), it takes a beat or two for the joke to hit you. There are lots of moments like that in "El Crimen Perfecto"; as both a director and a writer (he co-wrote the script, with Jorge Guerricaechevarría), Iglesias has a fondness for irregular, wobbly comic rhythms. But that's all part of the fun, and part of what gives the picture its elegant nuttiness.

The movie's protagonist is a charismatic rake named Rafael (Guillermo Toledo), a sharp dresser with meticulously trimmed facial hair who works in the ladies department of a big retail store. It's a job that suits him perfectly, providing him with an endless supply of gorgeous co-workers to sleep with, but his obsession with the store goes even further than that: It's his perfect fantasy world, a world where everything can be borrowed for a night (if not bought, at least not on a clerk's salary).

The pleasure of "El Crimen Perfecto" -- its Spanish title is the much wittier, jazzier "Crimen Ferpecto" -- comes from watching the unflappable Rafael stumble and flail as his perfect little world crumbles. Toledo is an insouciant, unassuming comic lead. When he's seduced, practically kicking and screaming all the way, by a homely, devious co-worker named Lourdes (the fabulously expressive Mónica Cervera), the weary, resigned look on his face may as well be a sign that reads "All shagged out." As his travails mount, the movie becomes loopier: We feel his pain, but that sure isn't going to stop us from laughing at it.