''Lord, Give Me Patience'' () is a 2017 Spanish comedy film directed by Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo.
Plot
After the sudden death of his wife, Gregorio - a grumpy conservative
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fanatic - has to carry out her final wish: to spend a weekend with his children and their partners in
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and throw her ashes into the
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river.
Gregorio's daughter Sandra is married to Jordi, a
Catalan and diehard
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supporter, who wants to send Gregorio's future granddaughter to a bilingual Catalan-English school in Barcelona.
They are joined by Gregorio's other daughter, Alicia, who is going out with an anarchic hippy named Leo, and his son Carlos, to whom he has not spoken since Carlos announced he was homosexual six months ago. Carlos arrives with his boyfriend Eneko, a
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of Senegalese origin, far from the ideal partner Gregorio would have envisioned for his son.
This trip to the south of Spain puts this dysfunctional family's capacity for forgiveness to the test, and sees them forced to accept each other, warts and all.
Cast
Reception
The film was a commercial success in Spain, being the second most watched film of the first half of 2017.
However, it received mixed-to-poor reviews from critics.
, writing for ''
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'', complained of the film's lack of comic timing, and added, "The figure of a policeman, who bellows 'Gibraltar is Spanish!' reflects the type of viewer for this kind of product." ''
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'' gave the film two stars out of five, criticising the "vulgar metaphor" of using various characters to reflect "Spain today", but notes that such films often have more commercial than critical success.
See also
*
List of Spanish films of 2017
A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 2017. When applicable, the domestic theatrical release date is favoured.
Films
Box office
The ten highest-grossing Spanish feature films in 2017, by domestic ...
References
External links
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2017 comedy films
Spanish comedy films
Atresmedia Cine films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s Spanish films
Spanish-language comedy films
Warner Bros. films
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