''Some Time Later'' () is a 2018

absurdist comedy Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of sur ...

film written and directed by

José Luis Cuerda José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 19474 February 2020) was a Spanish filmmaker. He is nationally recognised and considered to be amongst the greatest and most influential Spanish directors of all time, having made such critically successfu ...

which features an

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of actors and comedians. Set in the year 9177 and based on the 2015 eponymous novel by Cuerda, the film is billed as a "spiritual sequel" to the 1989 cult film '' Amanece, que no es poco''. It is Cuerda's

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before his death in 2020.

Plot

It is about the year 9177 (one thousand years up or down) and only one building (and its suburbs) lasts from humankind. Society is divided between the elite inhabiting the building, and the 'unemployed' who live outside in shacks. The aforementioned social fabric begins to unravel after José María, an outer dweller, tries to sell a lemonade to the elite, prompting a social revolution.

Cast

Production

The screenplay adapted the novel ''Tiempo después'' by José Luis Cuerda written in 2015, in turn based on a discarded screenplay from 1997. A group of comedians (including Edu Galán, Andreu Buenafuente, Berto Romero and Arturo Valls) created a group to unshelf the work and produce a film. Some of the crew duties were entrusted to Pau Esteve Birba (cinematography),

Lucio Godoy Lucio Godoy (born 1958) is a Spanish-Argentine film composer and music producer. He lived in Madrid from 1992 to 2013, working as a film ad TV composer, scoring and doing the music production for more than 50 feature films. In 2013, he became the ...

(music), Emma Tusell (editing), Pepe Domínguez (art direction), Clara Bilbao (costume design) and Miguel Calvo (sound).

Andreu Buenafuente Andreu Buenafuente Moreno (born 24 January 1965) is a Spanish Late night television, late night show host and founder of the group El Terrat. He has worked in TV3 (Catalonia), TV3, Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3, laSexta and Cero (TV channel), #0. ...

and

Arturo Valls Arturo Valls Mollà (born 24 March 1975) is a Spanish actor, primarily featured in comedy roles, as well as television presenter. He became popular for his performance in the comedy series '' Camera Café'' from 2005 to 2009, and for presenting t ...

took over production duties. The film's main theme, "Tiempo después", is performed by

Joaquín Sabina Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina (born 12 February 1949) is a Spanish musician, singer, composer, and poet. His songs usually treat love, heartbreaks and society with significant use of literary figures as in the baroque-literature style. He ha ...

. A joint Spanish-Portuguese co-production, the film was produced by Tiempo después AIE, Estela Films, Pólvora Films, Lanube Películas, El Terrat and Planar Gestão de Equipamentos Cinematográficos, with the participation of

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, Entertaintment One,

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, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-La Mancha Media. Shooting took place in between the

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and the

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regions and wrapped by December 2017. Shooting locations included and

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, in the

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. The "dystopic" building in which the fiction is set is a mashup of two iconic 20th-century buildings located in Madrid: the

Torres Blancas Torres Blancas is a mixed use concrete building in Madrid, Spain, designed in 1961 by Spanish architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. The structure is a noted example of Spanish Organicism. Spanish industrialist Juan Huarte commissioned the pr ...

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and Antonio Miró. Some of the indoor shots were filmed in Torres Blancas.

Release

''Some Time Later'' premiered at the

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(SSIFF) in September 2018. Distributed by eOne Films Spain, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 28 December 2018.

Accolades

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References

External links

''Some Time Later''
at ICAA's ''Catálogo de Cinespañol'' {{authority control 2019 comedy films 2019 films 2010s Spanish-language films Films shot in Castilla–La Mancha Films shot in the Community of Madrid Films shot in Madrid Films shot in the province of Toledo Films based on Spanish novels Spanish comedy films Portuguese comedy films Films set in the future Atresmedia Cine films 2010s Spanish films Films directed by José Luis Cuerda Films scored by Lucio Godoy 2010s dystopian films Absurdist fiction Spanish dystopian films