Taxi to Gibraltar

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| director = Alejo Flah

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Alejo Flah
Fernando Navarro

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| music = Aránzazu Calleja

| cinematography = Gris Jordana

| editing = {{Ubl|Antonio Frutos|Javi Frutos}}

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La Terraza Films
Atresmedia Cine
Ikiru Films
Sacromonte Films
Código Sur Producciones
La Mano de Dios la Película AIE
Film Tonic
AZ Films

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| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

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Spain
Argentina

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Spanish
English
Spanglish

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Taxi to Gibraltar ({{langx|es|Taxi a Gibraltar|links=no}}) is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine buddy road movie and madcap comedy with adventure elements directed by Alejo Flah, starring Joaquín Furriel, Dani Rovira and Ingrid García-Jonsson.

Plot

Diego (an Argentine con-man), León (a grumpy Spanish taxi driver) and Sandra (a woman dissatisfied with her life), embark on a road trip to Gibraltar set to look out for a gold treasure purportedly hidden in the tunnels below The Rock.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diezminutos.es/teleprograma/programacion-tv/a35999428/taxi-a-gibraltar-pelicula-dani-rovira-ingrid-garcia-jonsson/|website=Diez Minutos|title='Taxi a Gibraltar', el viaje imposible de Dani Rovira, Joaquín Furriel e Ingrid García Jonsson|date=1 April 2021|first=Diego|last=Jimeno}}

Cast

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Joaquín Furriel as Diego Manfredi
Dani Rovira as León Lafuente
Ingrid García-Jonsson as Sandra Sánchez
Mona Martínez as Justine{{Cite web|publisher=La Terraza Films|url=https://laterrazafilms.com/proyecto/taxi-a-gibraltar/|access-date=1 February 2022|title=Taxi a Gibraltar. Ficha artística}}
José Manuel Poga as Manchester
José Troncoso as José Manuel
Jorge García "Perrichi" as John Pérez
Juan Vinuesa as Raúl Pérez
María Hervás as Rosario
Fernanda Orazi as Alicia

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Production

The screenplay was penned by {{ill|Alejo Flah|es}} alongside Fernando Navarro. A Spain–Argentina co-production, the film was produced by La Terraza Films, Atresmedia Cine, Ikiru Films, Sacromonte Films, Código Sur Producciones and La Mano de Dios la Película AIE alongside Film Tonic and AZ Films.{{Cite web|url=https://www.academiadecine.com/2019/03/15/taxi-a-gibraltar-y-los-unwanted-de-europa/|title=Taxi a Gibraltar y Los Unwanted de Europa|publisher=Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain|date=15 March 2019}} It had the participation of Atresmedia, Amazon and Canal Sur, funding from the ICAA, support from {{ill|ICEC (Catalonia)|ca|Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals|lt=ICEC}}, and the collaboration of INCAA and the Ibermedia programme.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/festival-malaga/taxi-gibraltar-alejo-20190214170238-nt.html|title='Taxi a Gibraltar' de Alejo Flah, inaugurará el 22 Festival de Málaga|date=14 February 2019|website=Diario Sur}} It was shot in Madrid, La Línea, and Gran Canaria.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/noticias-cine/a26439162/taxi-a-gibraltar-avance/|date=21 February 2019|first=Juan|last=Silvestre|website=Fotogramas|title='Taxi a Gibraltar': avance, en primicia, de la buddy movie de Dani Rovira}}

Release

Taxi to Gibraltar screened as the opening film of the 22nd Málaga Spanish Film Festival on 15 March 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laverdad.es/culturas/dani-rovira-abre-festival-6014553651001-20190315220308-vi.html|website=La Verdad|title=Dani Rovira abre el Festival de Málaga con 'Taxi a Gibraltar'}} Distributed by Warner Bros España,{{Cite web|url=https://www.culturaocio.com/cine/noticia-dani-rovira-taxista-desesperado-problemas-economicos-taxi-gibraltarel-sistema-no-ayuda-ser-mas-alegre-20190315110753.html|website=Cultura Ocio|title=Dani Rovira, taxista "desesperado" y con problemas económicos en Taxi a Gibraltar:"El sistema no ayuda a ser más alegre"|date=15 March 2019}} it also hit Spanish theatres on the same day. It premiered in Argentina on 14 November 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/cartelera-de-cine/pelicula/taxi-a-gibraltar-pe9459|website=La Nación|access-date=1 February 2022|title=Taxi a Gibraltar}}

Reception

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film 58 out of 100 films (overall assessment: "so-so"), considering that despite the good casting, the very good shooting and resourceful production, the film fails because of the writing. She highlighted the Spanglish-speaking police agents from Gibraltar to be the best thing about the film. She however deemed García-Jonsson's and Rovira's unfunny characters to be a drag, whereas supporting actors José Manuel Poga and Mona Martínez featured too little screentime.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reviews/critica-taxi-gibraltar-nueva-comedia-dani-rovira-388443|date=14 March 2019|first=Raquel|last=Hernández Luján|title=Crítica de Taxi a Gibraltar, la nueva comedia de Dani Rovira|website=HobbyConsolas}}

Reviewing for Cinemanía, Rubén Romero Santos scored 2 out of 5 stars, considering that despite a promising initial approach (successfully portraying the losers who cannot see the end of the economic crisis) the film is derailed by the inclusion of a romantic comedy, an episodic story and even an adventure-mystery story as subplots.{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/cinemania/criticas/taxi-a-gibraltar-124660/?autoref=true|website=Cinemanía|title=Taxi a Gibraltar|date=13 March 2019|first=Rubén|last=Romero Santos|via=20minutos.es}}

Juan Pando of Fotogramas rated the film with 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting Furriel's "touching" caricature of a deceitful Porteño as the best thing about the film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a26796393/taxi-a-gibraltar-critica-pelicula/|website=Fotogramas|title=Taxi a Gibraltar|date=12 March 2019|first=Juan|last=Pando}}