In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
as Campuzano
as Calixta
as Valdivieso
as Madame Parodi
as Epazote
as Doctora Montejo
as Canudas
as Teresa Ocaña
as Bolos
as Güera Peñaloza
as Clemencia
as Agatha
