''Anything You Want'' ( es, Todo lo que tú quieras, links=no) is a 2010 Spanish

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film directed and written by

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. The cast features

Juan Diego Botto Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appe ...

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, Ana Risueño, Pedro Alonso,

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and Lucía Fernández.

Plot

Alicia, the mother figure of the Velasco family, dies in the wake of a

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, thereby leaving her widowed husband Leo (a homophobic and conservative

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) in charge of the 4 year-old Dafne. With support from Alex (a client), Pedro (a business associate) and Marta (a former girlfriend), Leo does his best to take care of his daughter. In order to please young Dafne, Leo gets to the point of

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as a mother.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Bellatrix Films and Todo lo que tú quieras AIE, with the participation of TVE. Shooting took place in Madrid and lasted for seven weeks. Shooting locations in Madrid included the Centro, Moncloa-Aravaca, and

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districts. David Omedes took over cinematography duties.

Release

Distributed by Wanda Vision, ''Anything You Want'' was theatrically released in Spain on 10 September 2010. The film was also added to the lineup of the

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's Contemporary World Cinema section.

Reception

Andrea G. Bermejo of '' Cinemanía'' scored 4 out of 5 stars, deeming ''Anything You Want'' to be "an extremely risky film" (starting by the cast of a 4-year-old girl in a non-supporting role), considering the parent-child relationship featured in the film to be a "luminous" counterpart to the one present in '' Pellet'', likewise writing that working mothers would love the film. Pere Vall of '' Fotogramas'' also gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, assessing the risk (taken) and Juan Diego Botto to be the best things about the film, considering that the story grows as it sidesteps writing tropes, building its "own indomitable personality".

Accolades

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References

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