The Mexican director Francisco Arango presented this week in Argentina his debut film “Change of plans”, A film shot in Spain and starring the Argentine Diego peretti and Aitana Sánchez Gijón who tells the story of a man in the midst of a midlife crisis in a comedy key and from here we can see the trailer. In Spain it was released last year under the name "Maktub".
The film, which the director himself described as a “magical Christmas story”, deals with the life of Manolo (Peretti), a mature man who seems to be anesthetized by the tedium of a monotonous family life and a marriage with Beatriz (Aitana Sánchez Gijón ) that is presented with the days counted. However, fate leads him to meet Antonio (Andoni Hernández San José), a 15-year-old boy from the Canary Islands suffering from marrow cancer but with a highly contagious vitality.
Since then, his dizzying friendship with him, his mother (Goya Toledo), a Mexican food delivery man (Jorge García) and an extravagant nurse (Rosa María Sardá), among others, will be the beginning of endless coincidences that will change his life. forever.
Asked about the choice of Argentine actor Diego Peretti as the protagonist of his film, the director said that “I wanted Andy García to be, but after negotiating a lot, he backed down. And it was Aitana who told me to look at Diego ”.
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