The Fury of a Patient Man
Short description
In Madrid in August 2007, Curro takes part in a jewellery store robbery and goes to prison. Eight years later he is released, hoping to rebuild his life with his girlfriend Ana and their son. What he finds instead is a situation he did not expect, and a stranger named José, whose path becomes tangled with his as old ghosts surface and a quiet pursuit of revenge takes shape. The story moves between José's gentle courtship of Ana, a café worker unaware that his interest is not simply romantic, and Curro's attempt to return to a life that has moved on without him.
The Fury of a Patient Man is a Spanish thriller and the feature directorial debut of Raúl Arévalo, who wrote the screenplay with David Pulido; Beatriz Bodegas produced it for La Canica Films. Antonio de la Torre plays José, with Luis Callejo as Curro, Ruth Díaz as Ana, Raúl Jiménez, Manolo Solo and Font García among the credited cast of twenty-one.
Made for about a million dollars, it took roughly twice that at the worldwide box office. It holds a 6.7 rating on IMDb from around 13,000 votes and a 6.6 on TMDB from about 475, while a critics' rating stands at 7.8 from ten reviews. Audience scores sit somewhat lower than the critics' figure.
What's left behind the scenes
- Producer Beatrice Bodegas mortgaged her own house to raise the funds needed for the film's production.
- The voice of the character played by Manolo Solo was invented during a break between rehearsals when the actors were just fooling around, but director Raúl Arévalo liked it so much that he asked Solo to speak that way on set.
- The project took 8 years to develop because the director and one of the scriptwriters, Raúl Arévalo, had a clear idea of the actors he wanted in the film, wanted to shoot only on 16mm film, which is more expensive, and refused to change anything in the plot to make it more mainstream. Work on the film only began after Arevalo and producer Beatriz Bodegas worked together on the comedy “Unexpected Life” (Jorge Torregrossa, 2013).
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