Isi-Disi, Rough Love

Isi-Disi, Rough Love is a 2004 Spanish comedy film directed by from a screenplay by Joaquín Górriz and Miguel Ángel Fernández which stars Santiago Segura, Jaydy Michel, and Florentino Fernández.

Plot

The plot follows the implementation of courtship mechanisms by kalimotxo-loving metalhead friends from Leganés with beautiful and posh Joaquín Sabina-loving Mexican university student Vanessa.

Production

The film was produced by Lolafilms and MTV Films Europe in association with Intuition Films, and it had the participation of TVE and Canal+. It boasted a €3.6 million budget.

Release

Distributed by United International Pictures, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 23 July 2004. It was the second largest-grossing Spanish film at the domestic box office in 2004.

Reception

Casimiro Torreiro of El País warned that "its coarse comic tone, its gutted humor, and its textbook patriarchalism make this film strictly inadvisable for sensible spirits".
Jonathan Holland of Variety assessed that the "desperately unimaginative script is compensated for by cast's obvious determination to have a good time and thesps' marquee power".