Valentín

Valentín

NR 2002 · 110 min · ★ 3.3 · Drama, Comedy

A Spanish theatre company is rehearsing Shakespeare in the original style using young men to play the women's roles. Complicating their endeavors is the previously straight director's infatuation the new young man whose charming everyone except the slightly older young man who he's replacing. When the young man on the way out decides to settle the score with the young man on the way up, he draws on what he's learned in the theatre. Enter Iago.

Directed by Juan Luis Iborra · Written by Marc Cases

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