Ok, It's Fine… (Spanish: Ok, está bien...) is a 2020 Mexican black-and-white comedy-drama film directed by Gabriela Ivette Sandoval (in her directorial debut) and written & starred by Roberto Andrade Ceron. It had an initial release in Mexico on November 24, 2020, as part of the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Synopsis
Mariano is a frustrated thirty-year-old screenwriter who spends much of his time watching movies while complaining about current cinema and life. But everything changes when his cousin Ramiro from Querétaro settles in his house.
Cast
The actors participating in this film are:
Roberto Andrade Ceron as Mariano
Isabella Argudín as Mariali
Ángel Alvarado as Ramiro
Gabriela de Corzo as Mariano's mom
Fermín Martínez as Mariano's dad
Juan Heladio as Himself
Pepe Návar as Himself
Financing
The film was financed by the Guadalajara International Film Festival in the "Guadalajara Construye" section, where it received the funds to finish the post-production phase.
Release
It had an initial release in Mexico on November 24, 2020, as part of the 35th Guadalajara International Film Festival. It had planned a commercial theatrical release sometime in 2020, but it couldn't take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, a drive-in theater tour was chosen starting on February 13, 2021, at the Teotihuacán Retrovisor drive-in theater.
Reception
Critical reception
Fernando Zamora from the newspaper Milenio wrote: "It's logical that Ok, It's Fine… to turn out to be a magnificent comedy. At the level of, for example, Temporada de patos, by Fernando Eimbcke filmed, by the way, in the same place. Because Gabriela's work Ivette Sandoval and Roberto Andrade Cerón do not need vulgarities or commonplaces to make people laugh and think, they do not need anything other than the experiences of two creators capable of laughing, first, at themselves, at their own fears and shortcomings, at the imposed need for triumph at the cost of selling ideals and making movies that are basically worth it." Irving Torres Yllán from Cine NT wrote: "Ok, It's Fine… is a comedy that manages to become a drama without losing its way, with a moment that only demonstrates the lack of stability of the protagonist, who is funny despite everything."