Sex, Party and Lies

Sex, Party & Lies (Spanish: Mentiras y gordas, lit. 'Lies and Big Fat [Lies]')^[2] is a 2009 Spanish coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes,^[3] starring Mario Casas, Yon González, Ana Polvorosa, Ana de Armas, Hugo Silva, Maxi Iglesias and Alejo Sauras.^[4][5]

Sex, Party and Lies
Theatrical release poster
Spanish	Mentiras y gordas
Directed by	Alfonso Albacete David Menkes
Written by	Alfonso Albacete Ángeles González-Sinde David Menkes
Produced by	Gerardo Herrero
Starring	Mario Casas Ana de Armas Yon González Ana Polvorosa Marieta Orozco Miriam Giovanelli Maxi Iglesias Duna Jové Esmeralda Moya Asier Etxeandia Hugo Silva Alejo Sauras
Cinematography	Alfredo Mayo
Edited by	Fernando Pardo
Music by	Juan Sueiro Juan Carlos Molina
Production companies	Castafiore Films Tornasol Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures
Release dates	7 March 2009 (2009-03-07) (Las Palmas) 27 March 2009 (2009-03-27) (Spain)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Budget	€3 million
Box office	$5.7 million[1]

Plot

Cast

• Mario Casas as Tony^[6]
• Ana de Armas as Carola^[6]
• Yon González as Nico^[6]
• Ana Polvorosa as Marina^[6]
• Maxi Iglesias as Pablo^[7]
• Marieta Orozco [es] as Sonia^[6]
• Alejo Sauras as Bubu^[7]
• Hugo Silva as Carlos^[6]
• Miriam Giovanelli as Paz^[6]
• Asier Etxeandia as Cristo^[8]
• Clara Pradas as Rosa^[8]
• Esmeralda Moya as Nuria^[8]

Production

Sex, Party and Lies is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production.^[9] In December 2010, the Ministry of Culture of Spain—then led by Ángeles González Sinde, who had been one of the co-screenwriters of the film five years before becoming minister—granted the film's producing companies €1 million, thus sparking a row of public strutiny and examination.^[10]

Release

The film premiered at the Las Palmas Film Festival in March 2009.^[11][12] Distributed by Sony Pictures,^[9] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 27 March 2009.^[13] It opened with a box office gross of €1,813,000 in its debut weekend.^[9]

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2009

References

1. "Sex, Party & Lies (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
2. Perriam, Chris (2013). Spanish Queer Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-7486-6586-0.
3. Vall, Pere (5 February 2009). "Mentiras y gordas. Para espectadores sin prejuicios ni ideas preconcebidas". Fotogramas (in Spanish).
4. Minguell, Jordi (2 January 2011). "Mario Casas:'Estoy harto de que digan que es mi momento'". El País (in Spanish).
5. Pastor, Custodio (9 March 2009). "Sexo, drogas y 'house', el cóctel de 'Mentiras y gordas'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2014.
6. "Mario Casas y Ana de Armas cuentan 'Mentiras y gordas' en 'Versión Española'" (in Spanish). RTVE. 14 July 2015.
7. Pala Murcia, Alberto (20 March 2020). "Así han cambiado los protagonistas de 'Mentiras y gordas'" (in Spanish). Los 40.
8. "Mentiras y gordas" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministerio de Cultura. 2009.
9. Rocamora, Jesús (1 April 2019). "Más sexo y menos abrazos". Público (in Spanish).
10. Rodríguez, Alejandro (29 December 2010). "Un millón para 'Mentiras y gordas'". El Mundo (in Spanish).
11. "Participación en festivales de Mentiras y gordas (Dir: Alfonso Albacete y David Menkes)" (PDF). Latido Films. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
12. "El Festival de Cine estrena 'Mentiras y gordas'". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 7 March 2009.
13. López, Lourdes (29 December 2010). "González-Sinde da un homenaje de un millón de euros a su 'Mentiras y Gordas'". La Vanguardia (in Spanish).

External links

• Sex, Party & Lies at IMDb
• Sex, Party and Lies at AllMovie
• Sex, Party and Lies at the TCM Movie Database