Having scored a blockbuster hit in Denmark with Flame & Citron, Ole Christian Madsen cements his commercial instincts with Superclásico, a likeable comedy set in Buenos Aires.
Anders W Berthelsen plays Copenhagen wine merchant Christian whose wife Anna (Paprika Steen), a football agent, has left him for a hunky young Argentinian soccer star and moved to Buenos Aires. Miserable, increasingly drowning his sorrows in wine and unable to relate to his morose son Oscar, he decides to go to Buenos Aires with Oscar (Jamie Morton) and win Anna back. When they arrive, much to Anna’s surprise and chagrin, Christian realizes he has a tough challenge ahead. She is living in a beautiful town house, is engaged to the soccer star Juan Diaz (Sebastián Estevanez) and about to broker a deal for him. Furthermore it’s too hot and he can’t stand the local wine.
Superclásico abandons romantic comedy convention and nothing happens as you’d expect. Through a series of bizarre circumstances including a sexual affair with Anna’s 70 year-old housemaid (Adriana Mascialino), Christian gets back on his feet. His rival Juan is played with great exuberance by Estevanez, and Steen is her ever watchable self. A subplot in which Oscar falls for a local girl adds to the romantic mayhem. - Mike Goodridge, Screen International