An old and ingenuous woman named Cándida (a newcomer Candida Villar) is an lowly maid in Madrid, where she scrapes to get by and help her two useless sons , a druggie called Javi and a schizophrenic called Julian . As her family situation goes from bad to worse, her travails inspire other people . She works as a maid , cleaning sight seeing bus and houses as Marquesa De Banco De España (María Elena Fesser , mother of director and writer , Guillermo and Javier Fesser) home . Candida has an accident and meets a TV presenter named Pablo (Jorge Bosch) , both of whom become into good friends .
Sensitive film full of good feeling , offbeat characters , haunting mood-pieces , fun scenes and sense of style but not totally satisfactory , including conventional pitfalls . Agreeable acting by Candida Villar as a nice naive person and sympathetic Jorge Bosch as a presenter who becomes involved into Candida's family problems . The picture is pretty well but results to be inferior to Guillermo Fesser's previous entries , as ¨Mortadelo and Filemon¨ and Milagro de P. Tinto¨ . The main character, Candida Villar, was assistant at the director Guillermo Fesser's house. He was so amused by the comments she usually made about films that he contracted her as a cinematic critic in his radio show 'Gomaespuma'. Later Guillermo decided to make this film in Honor to all the assistants in the world . Colorful cinematography by Josep M. Civit showing splendidly the Madrid slums and the United States , where is set the end of the film . Josep M Civit is one of the best Spanish cameramen as he has demonstrated in "The Hidden Face" , ¨Shiver¨, ¨Warriors¨ , ¨The Absent" , ¨Asphalt¨ , ¨Anguish¨ and many others . The picture achieved some prizes and nominations as was nominated Goya Awards 2008 Best Original Song , Jorge Drexler , and Won Turia Awards 2007 Huevo de Colón Award to Guillermo Fesser .
The motion picture was well directed by Guillermo Fesser , though he overdoes the same premise , Candida's ingenuousness . Writer/Actor/ Director Guillermo Fesser was born in 1960 in Madrid . He is a writer and actor, and along his brother Javier Fesser forms the Radio comical group ¨Gomaespuma¨ , both of them have written and directed some amusing films , such as : The miracle of P. Tinto (1998), The great adventure of Mortadelo y Filemón (2003) and this Cándida (2006).
