Greatest Hits
5.8
When Gabino's father returns home after a long absence, the two men awkwardly attempt to re-establish a relationship; but Gabino and his mother quickly tire of this man who has become a stranger to them and decide to kick him out, before realizing that he has already left. Gabino eventually tracks his father down and spends time with him in his rundown apartment, trying to figure out if there is any possibility for the two of them to ever truly communicate. Though Greatest Hits continues Pereda's exploration of his perennial themes of absence, masculinity and the difficulty of maintaining a family, it opens up a whole new set of aesthetic questions through a bold formal gambit: halfway through, the entire narrative reboots and starts from scratch with another actor playing one of the key characters, leading to different iterations of events already witnessed.
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Cast
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Gabino Rodríguez
Gabino
Known for
Sin Nombre
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
Teresa Sánchez
Tere
Known for
The Chambermaid
Tótem
José Rodríguez López
Emilio
Known for
La Chilindrina en apuros
Luisa Pardo
Luisa
Known for
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
Francisco Barreiro
Paco
Known for
Narcos: Mexico
Here Comes the Devil
Carmen Elena Villacorta
Waitress
No other roles listed
Nicolás Pereda Director · Alejandro Coronado Cinematographer Pedro Gómez Millán Cinematographer
Budget $320K · First release August 2, 2012 · Produced in Canada, Mexico, Netherlands
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Budget
$320,000
Production
Interior13 Cine
Production
Canada · Mexico · Netherlands
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Los mejores temas
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Switzerland · August 2, 2012
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
July 31, 2013 · Theatrical
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