The film is an adaptation of “Bypass”, the Basque comedy nominated for 15 Goya awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay.
almost deadthe film directed by Fernan Miras and starring Natalia Oreiro and Diego Velazquez comes to the platform HBO Max next September 1st. The cast is completed with Paola Barrientos, Ariel Staltari, Alberto Ajaka and Violeta Urtizberea.
almost dead It talks about friendship, love, death, the important things in life, a funny and hilarious comedy. It is a film that laughs at serious things. A comedy that achieves moments of immense tenderness followed by the finest black humor, with the best ingredients of sitcoms. A film that shows that love and laughter are the best solution to what we cannot change.
The film is an adaptation of “Bypassed”the Basque comedy nominated for 15 Goya awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay.
What is Almost Dead about?
María and Javi, lifelong inseparable friends, have been estranged for a long time. Until he receives a call from the other two cronies of the group, Paula and Lucas: María has only one month to live, December. Her expiration date is New Years. Faced with this, Javi decides to return to Buenos Aires, leave behind his new life in Montevideo, meet again with María, and with her friends Paula and Lucas, in this terminal situation.
Love was always between them without the other knowing it. But now Javi has a girlfriend, the stunning Julieta, and his love for María belongs to the most intense of his past. Instead, Maria continues to love him. She asks her friend to join her in the last crazy 30 days of her life. Javi stays, but he doesn’t know what to do with his other life. He doesn’t want to lie to her and he doesn’t want to hurt her, and they both start a long web of lies and entanglements. María tries to find meaning in her life, or in her death. She goes on a crazy path towards the end, seeing what things have been pending and what is truly important. Javi, Paula and Lucas accompany her as best they can on this journey, while in Javi her love for María is reborn. Until everything explodes on Christmas Eve, at the last supper.
almost dead is a Cinema 7 Films, Non Stop Studios, Particular Crowd production, in co-production with Montelona Cine (Uruguay) and will be available on the HBO Max platform starting September 1, as part of the franchise From the cinema to your houseenriching its catalog of movies and series.
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