Frentic Films is a 'movie group' similar to already existing music groups. Or at least that's how Alfonso Albacete sees it. Albacete, Miguel Bardem and David Menkes constitute the three heads of this peculiar type of Hydra, which was just born for the purpose of film directing under the auspices of Fernando Colomo.
One of the most attractive aspects of Más que amor, frenesí is the work method employed by this dynamic trio of directors: a choral film directed and written by three novices who insist on the value of 'collective artists' when it comes to things like costume design and computer-made images. The screenplay arose from the sketches that all three directors made of one of the female characters. This is at least refreshing, fun and ground-breaking and an insurance policy perhaps against flat characterisation and plotting. Added to this is the diversity of experience that each of the three director/writers have brought with them. Albacete, Bardem and Menkes have worked in advertisement, television and short films respectively.
Love? After Por qué lo llaman amor cuando quieren decir sexo? (Why Do They Call It Love When They Really Mean Sex?) and Todo es mentira (Life´s a Bitch) comes a third version on the confusion of love and sex, a crazier (more frenzied) version with an undeniably retro-naive title: Más que amor, frenesí. The frenzy of uppers, wild music and the confusion that arises when it's rather dark. Young people, sex, drugs and music. Gallons of music: the music of 'Bar Frenesí', which is the focal point of the film, the music of the night, the music the characters carry inside themselves. All this music appears in a soundtrack that brings together the most up-to-date dance music and which was coordinated by Arcade with original songs by Juan Bardem.
A married man (Javier Albala), who takes up and enamours a gay whose tastes run to ectasy (Gustavo Salmerón). A hard Jack Daniels-drinking type who could be a murderer and is looking for an old love (Nancho Novo). An unrepentant romantic (Ingrid Rubio), who's still got her head screwed on, an intelligent, conscientious woman who nevertheless lives on cloud nine (Beatriz Santiago), and the par-for-the-course nighttime sex bomb, desperate for affection at any price. These apparently contradictory, confused and camouflaged characters drive a story which turns on the contradictions, confusion and deceptions surrounding the night and its emotional crimes. One final bonus: a special 'happy-hour' with a corpse (a drag version of the Marx Brothers?) and a hidden sexual crime. Maria Alvárez
Prod co: Fernando Colomo PC
Prod: Fernando Colomo, Beatriz de la Gándara
Dir/Guión (Scr): Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem, David Menkes
Foto (Ph): Nestor Calvo
Mus: Juan Bardem, Juan Cook
Mon (Ed): Miguel Angel Santamaría
Ints (Cast): Nancho Novo, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Gustavo Salmerón, Beatriz Santiago
Ventas (Int sales): contact Fernando Colomo PC
PROGRAMACION (Screening): 22.00, 20 Sept, Principe 2; 12.00, 21 Sept, Principal
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