Movielogr
The Eagle and the Worm (2023)
Directed by Guita Schyfter
Overview
In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
Length 149 minutes
Actors
Marcelo Alonso | Dolores Heredia | Germán Jaramillo | Angélica Aragón | Horacio Castelo | Laura Almela | Gerardo Trejoluna | Claudette Maillé | Alan Alarcón | Fabiana Perzabal | Jorge Antonio Guerrero | Maria Espinoza Stransky | Gilberto Barraza | Mahoalli Nassourou | Mardonio Carballo | Roberto Duarte | Alvaro Guerrero | Ernesto Laguardia | Selma Beraud | Jaime Feinzaig | Victor Chamboir | William Chan Kin Yuk