Me, Myself and My Dead Wife (Spanish: Yo, mi mujer y mi mujer muerta) is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine comedy-drama film directed by Santi Amodeo from a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with Rafael Cobos. It stars Oscar Martínez alongside Ingrid García-Jonsson and Carlos Areces.
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Plot
Initially reluctant, widowed architect Bernardo accepts to fulfill his dead wife's wish of scattering her ashes in her Spanish homeland travelling from Buenos Aires to the Costa del Sol, where he finds out about her wife's secrets while coming across real estate agent Abi and Amalia.
Production
The film is a Películas Grupo Tranquilo and AZ Films Spanish-Argentine co-production and it had the participation of Canal Sur and Movistar+. Shooting locations included Seville, Sotogrande, Marbella, and Buenos Aires.
Release
The film was presented at the Málaga Film Festival on 21 March 2019. It was also set to open in Argentine theatres on 21 March 2019. Distributed by ConUnPack Distribución, it was released theatrically in Spain on 26 July 2019.
Reception
Pablo O. Scholz of Clarín gave the film a 'good' rating, pointing out that Martínez carries the whole film, while citing that "little, minute by minute, scene after scene, [the film] loses the consistency it had at the beginning".
Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting Martínez's performance as the best thing about the film.
Javier Ocaña of El País assessed that "there is never a sense of unity" in the screenplay, and the promising first half hour is scuppered.