Fantastic Golem Affairs (The)
Original Title
El fantástico caso del Golem- Director: Juan González, Nando Martínez
- Writer: Juan González, Nando Martínez
- Producer: María Beltrán, Paola Botrán, Roberto Butragueño, Pedro Hernández Santos, Almudena Illoro, Andrea Moya Acaso, Julen Robles
CGiii Comment
Homoeroticism and magical realism take center stage in the Spanish comedy THE FANTASTIC GOLEM AFFAIRS. Amidst a drunken game of charades atop an apartment building, Juan watches his childhood best friend slip and fall before shattering into a million pieces like a porcelain doll. Overcome with grief and confused by the strange set of circumstances during and immediately following his friend’s death, Juan sets out to uncover a queer world of clay companions and a computer algorithm that determines how each person will die.
THE FANTASTIC GOLEM AFFAIRS caught the eye of our programming team for its absurdist humor and attention to film craft. Using handmade sets, color-blocked costumes, and rear projection, directors Juan González and Nando Martínez create a science fiction world that evokes the aesthetics of a technicolor musical. The directors build a comedic layer of artifice that allows the surprise violence and existential deaths to seem as ordinary as checking your latest tweet for likes.
There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.
Cast & Characters
Brays Efe (as Juan)
David Menéndez (as David)
Luis Tosar (as Toni)
Bruna Cusí (as Clara)
Aimar Vega (as Ion - Becario DEP)
Clara Sans (as Silvia - Becaria DEP)
Ricardo Lacámara (as Cura)
Luis E. Parés (as Operario Cementerio)
Héctor Abad (as Empleado Funeraria (Felipe))
Javier Botet (as Carlos)
Roger Coma (as Roger)
David Pantaleón (as Fernando Borés)
Nao Albet (as Filtro Valencia)
Roberto Álamo (as Antonio)
Anna Castillo (as María Pons)
Raquel Guerrero (as Policía)
Tito Valverde (as Gustavo - Golem Solutions)
Gonzalo Benavides (as Speaker Karaoke)
Alex Perestroyka (as Lucía)
Javier Lago (as Señor Bordiú)
Mario Mayo (as Operario Grúa)
Eugenia Cuaresma (as Reportera)
Vianessa Castaños (as Pasajera Tren (Cecilia))