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Torrente Presidente’ Recasts Antihero as Far-Right Candidate in Box-Office Hit

The film labels itself satire to target far-right politics through a presidential-bid plot.

Overview

  • The sixth film in Santiago Segura's saga is drawing big crowds in Spain, with ámbito calling its release a boom that far out-earned Pedro Almodóvar's latest.
  • This time, the disgraced ex-cop José Luis Torrente is drafted by Nox, a fictional far-right party modeled on Spain's Vox, and sets his sights on the presidency.
  • An on-screen notice frames the movie as satire, and reviews describe crude, politically incorrect jokes delivered at a frantic pace.
  • Clarín reports parodies of Argentina's President Javier Milei and references to Donald Trump, and both Clarín and ámbito note a cameo by former Spanish leader Mariano Rajoy as himself.
  • Reviewers say the far right's rise since Torrente's 1998 debut changes how the mockery plays, with some seeing sharp ridicule and others sensing uneasy identification.