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BIFF’s October Film Night selection is Ferpect Crime (spelling correct), a Spanish comedy nominated for six Spanish Film Awards and two European Film Awards. According to the press release, the film is about Rafael (Guillermo Toledo), who is at the top of the heap at Yeyo’s, the department store whose ladies department is his own small kingdom. A hit with both customers and co-workers, the suave Rafael is able to sell anything to anyone, and seems a shoo-in for the position of store manager. But things don’t go exactly as planned, and the job goes to rival Don Antonio (Luis Varela) in men’s wear.

When Don Antonio mysteriously disappears, Rafael is the most likely suspect, and one person knows the secret that could bring him down. That person is Lourdes, a co-worker who has loved Rafael from afar for years, and the one woman he has not bedded. Forced to submit to her will, Rafael is subjected to a litany of affronts to his womanising, egocentric sensibilities, including Lourdes’s rapacious sexual appetites, a coerced meeting with Lourdes’s eccentric family (one of the film’s most hilarious sequences), and ultimately a very public wedding.

Rafael’s mental stability begins to deteriorate as he conjures various ways of offing his new bride, but the outcome is one that no one could ever have predicted. n

The film will screen Thursday, October 20 at 7.30pm in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The film will screen in Spanish, with English subtitles.

Tickets to BIFF Film Nights are $8 for BIFF Film Club members, and $10 for non-members. Filmgoers can reserve tickets by e-mailing BIFF at [email protected], or by calling the BIFF office at 293-3456. Tickets can be picked up at the BUEI from 6.30pm on the evening of the screening.[[In-content Ad]]

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