If you loved Chicas de Calendario, try El jardín de la alegría
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Nigel Cole, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Chicas de Calendario, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What El jardín de la alegría is
A suburban housewife suddenly inheriting her husband’s debts seems less like bad luck and more like a sitcom premise. Grace tries grow-op gardening to avoid foreclosure. Meanwhile, the local constabulary keep mistaking her sunflowers for something far more illicit.

