Crazy poison is a crazy film that takes place during a day in the life of Veronica, a successful woman who works in a dairy company. The young woman is about to take a plane to Rio de Janeiro to spend her holidays and enjoy the carnivals. However, Your company is blackmailed with a batch of poisoned yogurts and his boss, Don Claudio, has suffered a heart attack. When he goes to see Don Claudio at the hospital, he witnesses a attempted murder and suddenly finds herself involved in a series of entanglements, blackmail and persecutions that will mark Veronica’s life.
Who are the characters of Crazy poison?
Maru Valdivielso She played Veronica, a character older than her.The hardest thing was trying to adapt a little to my real age. that the character had on the script, which was about 30 years,” Valdivielso assured in an interview for RTVE. For this reason, the costume and makeup were fundamental for her characterization. Although, as the actress herself confessed, Sometimes “24-year-old Maru” appeared.
The mess that Veronica finds herself in is due to four men who cross her path and who are obsessed with a woman who drives them crazy. The first of them is Tony, her ex-husband, played by Antonio Resines. Pablo Carbonell It is Bernardo, a young man who is fleeing from Omar, who he brings to life Victor Cuica. Crazy poison It is one of Carbonell’s first films, who in 2004 would debut as a director with Tuna and chocolate.
Emilio Gutierrez Cabaretwinner of two Goya Awards, is the fourth man and plays Oscar, the nephew of the boss of the company where Veronica works. He is a “paranoid” guy, as the actor himself defines the character, frustrated by never being able to reach his dream job. For Gutiérrez it is “one of the most fun projects I have worked on” because on the set there was “a very relaxed atmosphere.”
Pablo Carbonell in one of the scenes from ‘Loco veneno’
A look at today’s society
The film, shot in such well-known places in Madrid as El Retiro Park, premiered in 1988 and is a faithful portrait of Spanish society of the time: a country that continued to be sexist and that, little by little, was advancing in social rights. That same year, a group of working women took to the streets of Barberá del Vallés to demand that their company give them equal pay with their male colleagues. Women were increasingly gaining ground in important roles in society; for the first time, they were allowed to join the Army and the Civil Guard. It was a Spain in which ETA continued to spread fear with kidnappings such as that of Emiliano Revilla. The businessman was held for 249 days in a hole near his home.
In the world of cinema, the 2nd Edition of the Goya Awards was held, where The animated forest by José Luis Cuerda was crowned Best Film of the year. Also in 1988 Pedro Almodóvar released one of his most famous films, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdownwhile Arturo Pérez-Reverte published his second novel entitled The fencing master.
A film directed by Miguel Hermoso
Michael Beautiful is the director of Crazy Poison and other titles such as Truhanes (made into a series and a film) and The Prodigious Light. In an interview included in the program From a movie from RTVE, Hermoso admits that “when they sent me the script for Crazy poisonwhich Félix Cábez had written, what interested me most is that it was from a unexpected youth“. This was something that worried the director, because as he himself stated “sometimes we run the risk of losing the point of view of this youth.”
Miguel Hermoso, father of actor Miguel Hermoso, has not made films for a long time. His latest work is Lola, released in 2007, a biopic about the artist Lola Flores. On RTVE Play you can find series such as Tango y Coffee with milk, in addition to The Eastern Womanone of the chapters of the famous series The woman of your life.
Antonio Resines is Tony, Verónica’s ex-husband
Crazy poison is added to the free film catalogue of RTVE Play, where you can also enjoy many more Spanish films such as Tuna and chocolate and astronauts and international cinema, with titles such as The Duke y The drum skin. Also, series like Scar and documentaries like One Life.
