There Is Always a Right Way

There Is Always a Right Way is a 1997 Spanish satirical comedy film directed by José Luis [García Sánchez] and written by Rafael Azcona based on a story by García Sánchez and Azcona. It stars Juan Luis Galiardo and Juan Echanove.

Plot

A satire of 1990s trash television, the plot tracks the plight of good-natured pícaros Juan and Pepe. After returning to Spain and about to commit suicide, they are invited by dishonest television host Lanzagorta to a sensationalist show that turns their misfortune into a docudrama.

Production

The films is an Alma Ata Films, Galiardo Producciones, Gaila, Función Única and Sogepaq production. García Sánchez saw his film as "more like a sainete than an esperpento".

Release

Distributed by Alta Films, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 29 August 1997.

Reception

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País declared the film a "fast-paced, dismembered, amusing and furious creation about the moral misery of today's Spain".
Jonathan Holland of Variety assessed the film to be an "enjoyably offbeat but hit-and-miss attack on the multiple failings of contemporary Spanish society as experienced by two good-natured rogues", highlighting their "exuberant " relationship as the film's strongest element.