The Dinner (2025)

Original title

La cena

Directed by

Manuel Gómez Pereira

Genre

comedy film

Country

France, Spain

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 89 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Just weeks after the Spanish Civil War ends, a young lieutenant and a conscientious maître d'hôtel must organize a banquet at Madrid's Hotel Palace for a group of Francoist generals. The film follows their frantic attempts to pull off the event while navigating the absurd tensions of the postwar political climate.

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What happens

The Dinner (Spanish: La cena) is a 2025 comedy film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira from a screenplay co-written with Joaquín Oristrell and Yolanda García Serrano based on a play by José Luis Alonso de Santos. The plot follows a young lieutenant (Mario Casas), and a conscientious maître d'hôtel (Alberto San Juan) as they try to organize a banquet at Madrid's Hotel Palace for a clique of Francoist generals just weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War. The film was presented in a RTVE-hosted gala of the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival on 24 September 2025 ahead of its 17 October 2025 theatrical release in Spain by A Contracorriente Films. It won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Costume Design at the 40th Goya Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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