Crimen Ferpecto

Crimen Ferpecto
Directed by	Álex de la Iglesia
Produced by	Álex de la Iglesia
Written by	Álex de la Iglesia Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Starring	Guillermo Toledo (Rafael) Mónica Cervera (Lourdes) Luis Varela (Don Antonio) Fernando Tejero Javier Gutiérrez Kira Miró (Roxanne ) Rosario Pardo Gracia Olayo
Music by	Roque Baños
Cinematography	José L. Moreno
Editing by	Alejandro Lázaro
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) is a 2004 Spanish black comedy film directed by Álex de la Iglesia.

Plot

Rafael is a women's clothing clerk at a large Madrid department store, Yeyo's. His department is filled with beautiful, comely young women whom Rafael routinely seduces. When Rafael vies for a management position with Don Antonio, a men's clothing clerk whom Rafael despises, a fluke causes Don Antonio to win the promotion. He fires Rafael and a fight ensues in which Rafael accidentally kills Don Antonio. Lourdes, an ugly and unassuming clerk at the store, witnesses the outcome of the fight, helps Rafael incinerate the body, and provides an alibi for the police. Rafael wins his coveted promotion, but at a terrible cost: Lourdes blackmails Rafael into an unwanted relationship. He is forced to fire his many former lovers, to marry Lourdes (she proposes on a live reality TV show) and to support clown-like women's clothing of her design. Rafael becomes so depressed he begins to hallucinate, seeing the ghost of Don Antonio who suggests Rafael should kill Lourdes. As the police are also pressing him again, he causes a fire in the department store and fakes his death, in front of his wife and a police officer. Five years later, he (with a false identity) has a small business selling ties and socks, but Lourdes' clown-like clothes are a success and she becomes a millionaire. The spelling of the title is, as explained in the movie, a deliberate mistake.

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, 85% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 53 reviews and an average score of 7.1/10 according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Trivia

• When the film was released in the United States in 2005, the film was retitled El Crimen Perfecto, which translates to "The Perfect Crime". The original title was a deliberate error, as the film explains.

• The film was released on DVD in the United States in March 2007 under the name "The Perfect Crime", and in Croatia it was titled Ševac i njegov pjevac which literally means "A fucker and his rooster".

External links

• Official Site
• Crimen Ferpecto at the Internet Movie Database
• Crimen Ferpecto at Rotten Tomatoes