Writer-director Alex de la Iglesia's mind-blowing black comedy is like a Hitchcockian practical joke: The cruelly funny-pay-off will slay you.
The morning after Madrid real estate agent Julia (Carmen Maura) naughtily has an overnight tryst with her husband, Ricardo (Jesus Bonilla), in a rental apartment she's handling, she discovers water damage from the flat above. Julia calls the appropriate authorities, who that the tenant, an old hermit, has died. As the paramedics carry out his corpse, Julia picks up his wallet and finds the key to a fortune in lottery winnings that the old man secreted in a locked box beneath his floor. After an argument with Ricardo...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins