Shot on a tiny shoe-string budget in Madrid, with quite a lot of close-ups (partly to reduce the difficulty of filming location shots presumably), this is a watchable film despite not looking glossy or particularly polished. It's also enhanced by nice music along the way.
The film seems to be a reasonably accurate reflection of the culture of relationships in Spain and the difficulties experienced by a British 'fish out of water' in a foreign country, trying to make a living after his relationship with a Spanish girl hits the rocks.
A few scenes are laugh-out-loud funny but most of laughs are more of the regular chuckle variety.
The dialogue feels quite real, but some of the situations are clearly exaggerated for comedic effect. Equally it's unlikely that the protagonist/hero would be quite such a sexual magnet in real life, but as he wrote, produced and directed the film as well as starred in it - and based some of the story on his real life adventures in Spain - I think we can let him off a degree of escapism.
