El gran León (lit.'The great León') is a 2017 Peruvian romantic comedy film directed by Ricardo Maldonado and written by Marcos Carnevale & Hernan Rebalderia. It stars Carlos Alcántara and Gianella Neyra. It was released on December 28, 2017 in Peruvian theaters. This film is a remake of the Argentine film Corazón de León.[1]

El gran León
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRicardo Maldonado
Written byMarcos Carnevale
Hernan Rebalderia
Produced byJorge Constantino
Carlos Alcántara Vilar
Marcos Carnevale
StarringCarlos Alcántara Vilar
Gianella Neyra
CinematographyMiguel Valencia
Edited byBarney Elliott
Gino Moreno
Music byJosé San Miguel
Carlos San Miguel
Production
company
Tondero Producciones
Distributed byTondero Producciones
Release date
  • December 28, 2017 (2017-12-28)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryPeru
LanguageSpanish

Synopsis

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León Godoy measures one meter thirty-six centimeters and is not intimidated by anyone. Less so before Ivana Cornejo, a beautiful divorced lawyer whom he meets by chance in life and with whom an immediate connection arises. Both must face and combat social prejudices -their own and others-, to verify that great love stories always present themselves in the least imagined ways.[2]

Cast

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Reception

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Box-office

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The film brought 45,566 people to theaters on its first day,[4] ending its opening weekend with over 300,000 viewers.[5]

Critical reception

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El Comercio negatively criticized the film, saying, "El gran León is the creative laziness of the director, who in most of the film is dedicated to tracing, sometimes shot by shot, the original version... In the original version, the main actor achieves a character full of charm, sympathy, intelligence, and even a share of sadness, melancholic or sentimental reverie more typical of a good classic comedy. Alcántara, on the other hand, without the possibility of going very far with respect to his register of 'stand-up comedy' or of Creole picaresque, looks uncomfortable, limited, wrapped in a character that he does not understand".[6]

References

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  1. ^ ""El gran León": nuestra crítica a lo nuevo de Carlos Alcántara". El Comercio (Peru) (in Spanish). 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  2. ^ "El gran León (película 2017) - Tráiler. resumen, reparto y dónde ver. Dirigida por Ricardo Maldonado". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-11-19. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h TROME, NOTICIAS (2017-10-21). "El Gran León: Así lucirá Carlos Alcántara en la nueva película peruana [FOTOS] | ESPECTACULOS". Trome (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  4. ^ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (2017-12-30). ""El gran León": ¿Cuánta gente vio el filme en su estreno? | LUCES". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  5. ^ PERU21, NOTICIAS (2018-01-05). "'El gran León' superó los 300 mil espectadores en su primer fin de semana [VIDEO] | ESPECTACULOS". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (2018-01-06). ""El gran León": nuestra crítica a lo nuevo de Carlos Alcántara | LUCES". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-19.
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