Villaronga's second stint as a director-for-hire. It was the film's star, María Barranco, who did the recruiting, even allowing him a say in the screenplay. Which shows! 99.9 might be more of a straight-shooting thrills-and-shocks, sex-and-violence genre exercise than his other classification-defying masterpieces, but it's nevertheless very much a Villaronga film. Not to mention a mighty fun one at that. The story is loosely based on a well-documented true event, the Bélmez Faces. On August 23rd 1971, pale faces appeared in the cement floor of 5 calle Real, in the Andalusian backwater of Bélmez de la Moraleda. In this version, Lara, the hostess of a radio show dealing in the paranormal, encounters similar happenings - and worse - which seem to be connected with the strange death of her former lover Victor. Here's a hint: turn the title's numbers upside down...
- Director
- Agustí Villaronga
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 1997
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 106'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Language
- Spanish
- Producers
- Antonio Guillén Rey, Marta Murube
- Production Companies
- Impala Producciones, Origen Producciones Cinematográficas
- Sales
- Video Mercury Films, S.A.
- Screenplay
- Lourdes Iglesias, Jesús Regueira, Agustí Villaronga
- Cinematography
- Javier Aguirresarobe
- Editor
- Pablo Blanco
- Production Design
- Francesc Candini
- Sound Design
- Alfonso Pino
- Music
- Javier Navarrete
- Cast
- María Barranco