I enjoy that Official Competition really sends up that kind of brooding artist persona.

This movie-making industry satire is witty, intelligent and saved from potentially unbearable navel-gazing by the warmth, talent and sheer charismatic chemistry of Cruz and Banderas.

Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Official Competition may be yet another satire on filmmaking, but it’s the rare iteration that’s nuanced enough to understand that self-awareness does not equal absolution.

Despite pranks like the boulder, the humour is in the script and sidelong glances. It’s all the funnier and cleverer for it, lampooning not just the film industry but all creative aspiration and the vanity that can accompany its success.