?Ferpect Crime?, a Spanish comedy nominated for six Spanish Film Awards and two European Film Awards, is the Bermuda International Film Festival?s October Film Night selection.

The film will screen on Thursday, October 20 at 7.30 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.

The screening will be in Spanish, with English subtitles.

Spanish iconoclast Alex de Iglesia continues to toy with genre conventions in this black comedy, offering up his characteristic social commentary in a skewering of consumerist culture and the superficial values it perpetuates.

Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is at the top of the heap at Yeyo?s, the department store whose ladies department is his own small kingdom.

A hit with customers and co-workers alike, the suave Rafael is able to sell anything to anyone, and seems a shoe-in for store manager.

But things don?t go exactly as planned, and the job goes to rival Don Antonio (Luis Varela) in men?s wear.

When Don Antonio mysteriously disappears, Rafael is the most likely suspect, and one person knows the secret that could bring him down.

That person is Lourdes, a co-worker who has loved Rafael from afar for years, and the one woman he has not bedded. Forced to submit to her will, Rafael is subjected to a litany of affronts to his womanising, egocentric sensibilities, including Lourdes?s rapacious sexual appetites, a coerced meeting with Lourdes?s eccentric family (one of the film?s most hilarious sequences), and ultimately a very public wedding.

Rafael?s mental stability begins to deteriorate as he conjures various ways of offing his new bride, but the outcome is one that no one could ever have predicted.

Ultimately sympathetic to both Lourdes and Rafael, mere products of capitalism?s pervasive ideology, the film maintains its madcap buoyancy throughout, allowing it to maintain its hilarity along with its prescience.

?Ferpect Crime? was popular on the festival circuit, screening at Toronto, Seattle, and Copenhagen, among others.

The film received a theatrical release in Spain, Argentina, Italy, Chile, France, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland and the United States.

Tickets to BIFF Film Nights are $8 for BIFF Film Club members, and $10 for non-members. Filmgoers can reserve tickets by e-mailing BIFF at infobiff.bm, or by calling the BIFF office at 293-3456. Tickets can be picked up at the BUEI from 6.30 p.m. on the evening of the screening.