Win the "I'm So Excited" Prize Pack

I would personally like to thank Sony Pictures Classics for latching on to Pedro Almodóvar all those years ago and nurturing his ongoing fandom in arthouse circles. As you may have heard his latest, I'm So Excited, is in the theaters this weekend. SPC is offering five prize packs to readers right here at TFE! 

Enter to win an I'm So Excited! Prize Pack!

The I'm So Excited Prize Pack includes one  I'm So Excited flight attendant t-shirt, one I'm So Excited flight inflatable neck pillow and one I'm So Excited pilot wing pin.

To enter just send me an email by Monday July 1st at Midnight with...

• "I'm So Excited" in the subject line
• Your name and shipping address
• And the answer to this question: If you found yourself on a full flight with all the characters from Pedro's filmography, who would you sit next to and why?

The official synopsis goes like so...

A technical failure (a kind of justifiable negligence, even though it sounds contradictory, but that’s what human actions are) has endangered the lives of the passengers on Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots, hardened, experienced professionals are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds is as complicated as it is at ground level, and for the same reasons, which could be summarized in two: sex and death.

 

The travelers in Business Class consist of a pair of newlyweds, partygoers, worn out by their wedding celebration; a financier and embezzler; unscrupulous in business but also a father afflicted by his daughter’s estrangement; an inveterate Don Juan with an uneasy conscience who is trying to say goodbye to one of his women (girlfriends); a rural psychic; a queen of the gossip magazines and a Mexican with an important secret. Each of them has a project in Mexico City, either to work or to escape. They all have some kind of secret, not just the Mexican.

 

Their defenselessness in the face of danger provokes a general catharsis among the passengers and the crew, and this ends up becoming the best way to escape from the idea of death. This catharsis, developed in the tone of a riotous, moral comedy, fills the time with sensational confessions that help them forget the anguish of the moment.

Comments

[SETJE]

Having seen the movie in Spain, I can guarantee you it's not the cup of tea for Americans. Not because it's Anti-American, but because it's Super-Spanish. Also, the screenplay is terrible. The best thing is the acting, and not everyone is good. The best thing is the idea, but sadly, it's also deeply depressing. It's a FRESH movie.

[3rtful]

The Spanish identity throughout Pedro's work never before stopped an audience elsewhere from appreciating his genius.

And my expectations for this thing were never high because this was presented as an outright comedy and nothing mysterious occurs, which is the main joy for me in an Almodovar film, finding out something about the characters I didn't know that changes the whole nature of the story being told.

[dee dee]

I love to seet next to Ricky from Tie me up tie me down!!!

[NATHANIEL R]

dee dee -- he's keep you in your seatbelt at least. (also: good choice)

[Conrado]

SETJE -- I just watched the movie yesterday and was quite entertained, however I don't get what is the "so spanish" part that people seem to be talking about. And what is the depressing part? I thought it was just a fun, not very deep movie. Could you explain please?

[Peggy Sue]

I would seat next to Kika. I love her bulletproof optimism. Also, we could share beauty tips.