2011 · drama · comedy · parody
As Luck Would Have It
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia1h 38m2011
Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...
Our read: As Luck Would Have It (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · parody entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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