''Mylove Lost'' ( es, Miamor perdido, links=no) is a 2018 Spanish romantic comedy film directed by

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from a screenplay by Clara Martínez-Lázaro and Miguel Esteban. It stars

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and

Dani Rovira Daniel Rovira de Rivas (born 1 November 1980) is a Spanish comedian and actor. Career Early career After graduating in Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Granada, he started touring with Paramount Comedy, performin ...

Plot

Upon falling romantically for each other, Mario and Olivia adopt a

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named Miamor (Mylove), only responsive when addressed in the

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. As love fades, the cat seemingly disappears too. It turns out that the cat has been secretly taken care of by Mario, prompting a vicious response by Olivia when she finds about it.

Cast

Production

The screenplay was penned by Clara Martínez-Lázaro alongside Miguel Esteban. The film is a Sony Pictures International Productions, Discontinuo La Película AIE, Impala, Caos Films, and Lightbox Animation Studios production, and it had the participation of

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. Filming began on 9 October 2017. Shooting locations included the

Madrid region The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munici ...

Release

The film was presented at the Paterna's Kinépolis multiplex as a part of the 'Antonio Ferrandis' Film Festival slate. Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, it was theatrically released in Spain on 14 December 2018.

Reception

Janire Zurbano of ''

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'' rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that despite having "ups and downs, as well as an arsenal of hackneyed gags", "it is inevitable" to leave the theatre with a smile. Javier Ocaña of '' El País'' considered that the film "is always better directed than written", with Martínez-Lázaro shining even in

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. Manuel J. Lombardo of ''

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'' rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, warning in advance to be "biologically unable to laugh at a inglejoke from the bland comedian ovira (contrasting in the film to inherent comic charms displayed by Jenner), also writing that the film ends up falling apart, and "again forgets that the key to any good romantic comedy is also to take care of the

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and the sense of rhythm".

References

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