Anything for Bread

{{Infobox film

| name = Anything for Bread

| image = Cartel Todo por la pasta.jpg

| caption =

| director = Enrique Urbizu

| producer = Joaquín Trincado (producer)

Gaizka Uraga (executive producer)

| writer = Luis Marías

| starring = {{plainlist|

| music = Bernardo Bonezzi

| cinematography = Carles Gusi

| editing = Ana Murugarren

| distributor = Creativideo

| released = {{Film date|1991|08|14|Spain|df=yes}}

| runtime = 88 minutes

| language = Spanish

| country = Spain

}}

Anything for Bread ({{langx|es|Todo por la pasta}}) is a 1991 Spanish film directed by Enrique Urbizu and written by Luis Marías.

Premise

The film centres on an armed robbery within a bingo hall, within a background in the underworld of drug dealing, sexual perversion, police corruption and a political assassination. Woven through this are the stories of two very different women from opposite backgrounds. Azucena is a robber fleeing the scene when she is picked up by a young woman, Verónica. Both are vulnerable, having been threatened and betrayed, and soon start fighting against each other to gain the proceeds of the robbery. As they get to know each other, they develop a mutual respect, and this helps them fight the dangerous men who are chasing them. The two women eventually become sisters-in-arms and keep the stolen money.Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas {{google books|pgj8TonlszwC|Contemporary Spanish Cinema|page=191}}

Cast

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Production

The director used Álex de la Iglesia's graphic work for production design.Dona Kercher {{google books|CXGrBQAAQBAJ|Latin Hitchcock: How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella became Notorious|page=137}}Antonio Lazaro-Reboll {{google books|NwirBgAAQBAJ|Spanish Horror Film|page=300}}

It was filmed in Bilbao, Bakio, Santurce, Okondo, Getaria, Gipuzkoa and Arrieta,{{cite web |title=Todo por la pasta (1991) Filming & Production |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100793/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt |publisher=imdb.com/ |accessdate=26 August 2018}} in the Basque region of Spain.Enrique Ávila López {{google books|zjkVCwAAQBAJ|Modern Spain|page=357}} The city of Bilbao gave the film a neo-noir look with a post modern-twist.Myrto Konstantarakos (editor) {{google books|2XefIrfRuzkC|Spaces in European Cinema|page=133}}

Awards and nominations

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Reception

It has also been called "a satisfactory thriller".Joan Ramon Resina (editor) {{google books|BbU1KFEb4x0C|Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema|page=5}}

One reviewer noted that the film was "a strange mixture of thriller and comedy", it has "great set pieces" but an "excessively jumbled script". It is an "irregular but sympathetic product".{{cite web |title=ALL FOR THE PASTA (1991, Enrique Urbizu) |url=http://thecinema.blogia.com/2004/091902-todo-por-la-pasta-1991-enrique-urbizu-.php |publisher=thecinema.blogia.com |language=Spanish|accessdate=26 August 2018 |date=19 August 2004}}

References

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