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
Film details
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 1997
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 106"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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