(Luis Gerardo Méndez, Juan
Pablo Gil & Karla Souza)
Highly enjoyable Mexican comedy sees a wealthy father
teaching his spoilt “brats” a lesson! (Review by Caroline Smart
The Noble Family
(Nosotros los Nobles),
recently released on the South African circuit, is a highly enjoyable Mexican comedy
directed by Gary Alazraki.
It stars Gonzalo Vega as Germán Noble, a wealthy businessman
living in Mexico City. In the process of running his extensive empire and still
grieving the loss of his wife, he hasn’t exactly been paying the attention he
should have done to the activities of his three children.
While all grown up, they are spoilt brats par excellence - Javier,
Bárbara and Carlos – and spending money like water.
Javier (Luis Gerardo Méndez) is a dreamer and when he isn’t
partying, he’s concocting wild ideas for get-rich schemes which are completely
impracticable and unattainable.
With designer labels as her second name, Bárbara (Karla
Souza) is being pressed into marriage by much older man whose sole aim is to
get his hands on her trust money.
The sexual prowess of the youngest, Carlos (Juan Pablo Gil),
saw him being expelled from college for having sex with one of the teachers.
Quite by chance, Germán Noble sets eyes on their various
credit cards and is appalled by the amounts they are spending. It’s time to
teach them a lesson. So he concocts an elaborate story that the family has to
go into hiding as his assets have been frozen and the unions are after him.
They hole up in their late grandfather’s dilapidated house in a seedy area of
town.
In order to eat, and refurbish the house, the three have to
go out to earn money and these adventures are hilarious, to say the least. In
the process, Germán Noble discovers that there is blame on his side as well
because there are things about his children he never knew before because he was
too wrapped up in his work. There are some delightful scenes as the family
starts to grow together.
It’s a fast moving film with good camera work and excellent
performances all round. It’s not surprising that it was one of the biggest
domestic box office successes ever seen in Mexico.
The Noble Family
is in Spanish with English subtitles. – Caroline Smart
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