The miracle of P. Tinto

The Miracle of P. Tinto is a Spanish film of the surrealist-comic genre, narrated in retrospect, directed by Javier Fesser and written by himself together with his brother William Fesser. The film, released in 1998, won the Goya Award for best special effects.

Synopsis

P. Tinto (Luis Ciges) is obsessed with having a big family, which leads him to launch his "project", a classic drawing with sticks, showing a large family where a father, a mother can be seen, eight children and, at the end of the drawing, a scribble of a mouse, and below the motto "Familia P. Tinto". On a bench at his school, he meets Olivia Prieto (Silvia Casanova), a blind girl, who sits next to him and takes her role. Passing her hand over it, she says, "Ah, this is just what I need; I'm going to help you." I don't know if it will be enough, but it's what I'm looking for". P. Tinto falls in love with her gaze (unaware of her blindness).

In their past they both overhear parents saying that to have children they did "tralari, tralarí," by pulling and contracting the suspenders that hold up their pants with their thumbs. Olivia and P. Tinto, according to what has been heard, keep that secret for when the time comes to try to have children to the rhythm of "tralari, tralari". Of course that does not give them any results. In their house, located in the countryside, they watch the years go by, as well as the Northern Pendular Express (which passes quickly every 25 years), until one day, after desperately asking Saint Nicholas to give them a son, two Martians appear., José Ramón (Javier Aller) and the Lieutenant (Emilio Gavira), whose UFO, a "Displaceable Aerodinámico Topolino Coupé XT3", accidentally breaks down in front of the P. Tinto house. He and Olivia, by confusing the Martians with the children they have requested from the saint in his prayers, end up adopting them as their own, despite the fact that the Martians insistently explain that they come from another planet. However, P. Tinto does not feel the "children" as his own, so he decides to adopt an African child. Then Pancho José (Pablo Pinedo) appears, a huge foreigner who escaped from an asylum, carrying a bottle on his back, and P. Tinto hires Usillos (Janfri Topera) to build a room for his "African" son. 34;, a character who, apart from being an excessively nationalist builder, is willing to become a great ufologist and work for NASA.

With this singular mixture of characters, funny and surreal stories begin to follow one another, time travel, the closure of P. Tinto's wafer factory, the priestly vocation of one of the Martians and, above all, the desire to Pancho for seeing his mother again, who died crushed by a box of tetilla cheese.

Cast

• P. Tinto: Luis Ciges

• P. Tinto (niño): Andrés Cigues
• P. Tinto (young sweet): Bermúdez

• Olivia: Silvia Casanova

• Olivia: Sonia Casanova
• Olivia (young adult): Goizalde Núñez

• Joselito: Pablo Pinedo

• Joselito (child): Pedro Morales

• Marciano 1, Lieutenant Emilio Gavira

• Marciano 2, José Ramón: Javier Aller

• Usillos: Janfri Topera

• Father Marciano: Tomás Sáez

• Crispín: Germán Montaner

• Bartolo: Janusz Ziemniak

• Manikomien Direktorr: Pepe Viyuela

• P. Tinto Padre: Juan Manuel Chiapella

Soundtrack

Other people's music used in the film

• "Looking at the sea"

• Letra: Cesar de Haro

• Music: the Marine Master (Marino García González: Añover de Tajo, 1910).

• Performer: Jorge Sepúlveda.

• "You're ugly."

• Author: J.A. Garcia Gallo.

• Performer: Tommy.

• "Summer love"

• Authors: Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook.

• Performers: The Ross Sisters (accompanies Jaime Morey in the 1972 edition of the Eurovision Festival).

• "I have a formidable UFO." Verbatim counter-facture of "My dairy cow."

• Original letter: James Morcillo.

• Music: Fernando García Morcillo.

• Intérpretes: Juan Luis Cano (voz), accompanied by a small orchestra; clarinet: Andreas Prittwitz.

• "Passing with Dad"

• Authors: Augusto Algueró, S. Guardia and J. Hubert.

• Performers: The Three Carino

• Crazy, crazy.

• Letra: Antonio Guijarro Campoy (conchita Bautista, Carmen Sevilla, Marisol and the Dynamic Duo) and Josefina Sancha Santolaria.

• Music: José María Gil Serrano (current collaborator of flamenco guitarist Luis Maravilla

• Performers: Luisa Linares and the Galindos

• "Yeh Yeh"

• Music: Rodgers Lee Grant and Laurdine "Pat" Patrick. It was first recorded by Mongo Santamaría on the 1962 album. Watermelon Man.

• Letra: later added by Jon Hendricks for his trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

• Performers: The 3 South Americans.

• "Skirts"

• Author: Joe Roberts, in charge of the banjo in the Slatz Randall orchestra.

• Performers: Pasadena Roof Orchestra on the album Steppin' Out[1] (Pasadena Records; CD PRO 2; live record in England; 1989).

• "NASA is Coming." It consists of three fragments corresponding to:

• "Adventure Island" - Author: Wolfgang Käfer, included in the album Leisure/Romance/Travel (Carlin Recorded Music Library – CARLIN 222, 1995).
• "Friendly Aliens" - Author: Ron Goodwin, included in the album Cinema Classics (KPM Music - KPM-0355, 1998).
• "Starfleet" - Author: A. P. Jackman, included in the album The Hollywood Series / Sci - Fi (KPM Music – KPM 343, 1997).

• "The Miracle": Mozart music is used at the end of The magic flute.

• The music of Eurovision is also used, which is the instrumental prelude of the "Te Deum" in re mayor of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Original Soundtrack

• • In addition to using the "Skirts" recording of the Roof Orchestra Pasadena, there are three other pieces of style Dixieland In the film, and they were made for it: "Education Stomp" (which is heard in the sequence of the workshops), "Suspender Crawl" ("The Storm-Storm") and "Spaceship Shuffle", composed by Matthew L. Simon (former, member of Urban Music) and John Dubuclet[2], and played by them with their band Matthew L. Simon & Friends.

• • The rest of the original music is from Suso Saiz:

• "Grosnik: Madness"
• "Olivia, P. Tinto and the Lightning"
• "The Miracle of P. Tinto"
• "Lejia and frogs"
• "Until I make an island, Father"
• "The unforgettable days"
• "The Red Card"
• "A fat boy at the pier"
• "Pesadilla"
• "Education"
• "African Dream"
• "P. Tinto and time"

Awards