# Km 0
**Km. 0** (also written *Km.0* and released in English as *Kilometer Zero*) is a 2000 Spanish ensemble comedy directed and written by Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda García Serrano, in which fourteen strangers converge one hot summer afternoon at the Kilómetro Cero in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, the point from which all Spanish road distances are measured.[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) • [2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html) It was the second film the two directors made together, after their 1997 debut *Amor de hombre*; before that they had worked as screenwriters on comedies for Manuel Gómez Pereira.[3](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/km_0?hl=es&id=DCAE7C225D39E7B4MV) • [4](https://www.letrasgalegas.org/obra-visor/crticas-del-cine-espaol-1/html/ffa3430e-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.html)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title / year | Km. 0, Spain, 2000; ICAA file 104399[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) |
| Directors and writers | Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda García Serrano, their second joint film[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) • [3](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/km_0?hl=es&id=DCAE7C225D39E7B4MV) |
| Spanish release | 30 June 2000; 108 minutes; 35 mm color; rated not suitable for under-13s[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) |
| Spanish box office | 754,066.09 euros from 194,883 spectators[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) |
| Principal cast | Concha Velasco (Marga), Georges Corraface (Gerardo), Silke (Amor), Carlos Fuentes (Pedro), Mercè Pons (Silvia), Alberto San Juan (Sergio)[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) |
| Music | Joan Bibiloni; Ismael Serrano's title song nominated for Best Original Song at the 2001 Goya Awards[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) • [3](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/km_0?hl=es&id=DCAE7C225D39E7B4MV) |
| US release | 11 July 2003 (wide), grossing $156.4K[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/km0) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
The film takes its title from the Kilómetro Cero plaque in the Puerta del Sol, a habitual meeting point in Madrid where people who do not know each other arrange first encounters. Screenwriter Juan Luis Iborra, who lived nearby, imagined what would happen if the people waiting there ended up with someone other than the person they were expecting; he developed the idea into a screenplay with Yolanda García Serrano.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html)
In the story, seven pairs of characters, some of them strangers to each other, have arranged to meet at the square on a hot August afternoon. Over roughly six hours of screen time their lives cross and change: some end up with the person they were waiting for, but most meet the wrong one and finish happier than they began.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html) • [6](https://www.microcritica.com/pelicula/2000/km0.htm) The authors described the film as "a modern fairy tale".[7](https://decine21.com/peliculas/km-0-4838)
## Plotlines and cast
Concha Velasco, the veteran of the cast, heads an ensemble of thirteen younger actors.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html) The intertwined stories include:
- The wealthy married Marga (Concha Velasco) arranges to meet a gigolo (Jesús Cabrero) and instead finds the son (Miquel García) she abandoned as a child.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html)
- Pedro ([Carlos Fuentes](https://www.edgepedia.org/carlos-fuentes)), a film student from the provinces, has arranged to meet a friend of his sister, Silvia (Mercè Pons), but mistakes the prostitute Tatiana (Elisa Matilla) for her; Silvia, an out-of-work actress, throws herself in front of the car of the prestigious theater director Gerardo (Georges Corraface) hoping to win the role of her life.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html) • [8](https://cinemaopen.blogspot.com/2011/02/km-0.html)
- Amor (Silke) is determined to marry Mario (Tristán Ulloa), a waiter with whom she is in love; her future sister-in-law Roma (Cora Tiedra) is also in love with him, and a policeman (Roberto Álamo) crosses her path and tangles her plans.[2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html)
- Sergio (Alberto San Juan), an office clerk about to marry, meets the prostitute Tatiana, while the dancer Benjamín shares a home with the gigolo Miguel.[9](https://todayinmovies.com/movie/km-0)
The supporting cast also includes Armando del Río (Máximo), Elisa Matilla (Tatiana), and the directors themselves in small roles: Iborra plays one of Tatiana's clients and editor José Salcedo plays a taxi driver.[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) • [8](https://cinemaopen.blogspot.com/2011/02/km-0.html)
## Production
The film was shot in Madrid between 11 October and 24 November 1999, in autumn cold and rain, although the story takes place on a hot August afternoon.[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) • [2](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html) It was produced by Cuarteto Producciones Cinematográficas (40 percent) and Universal Pictures Iberia (60 percent), with Warner Sogefilms as the Spanish distributor; Ángel Luis Fernández was the cinematographer, Joan Bibiloni composed the score, and José Salcedo edited.[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399)
## Reception
In Spain the film opened on 30 June 2000 and sold 194,883 tickets, earning 754,066.09 euros.[1](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399) Ismael Serrano wrote a title song for the soundtrack that poetically retells the film's plot and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2001 [Goya Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/goya-awards).[3](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/km_0?hl=es&id=DCAE7C225D39E7B4MV) • [10](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/km-0/)
The film reached US theaters on 11 July 2003 and grossed $156.4 thousand.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/km0) American critics were divided: it scored 55 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 47 reviews and a Metascore of 51 on Metacritic, labeled mixed or average.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/km0) • [11](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/km-0---kilometer-zero/critic-reviews/) The New York Times' Dave Kehr compared its structure to a Shakespearean forest comedy, sorting out mismatched couples into appropriate mates; Variety called it a "consistently amusing, candy-colored sex romp"; the Los Angeles Times described it as light summer entertainment with an able, attractive cast.[11](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/km-0---kilometer-zero/critic-reviews/) The critics' consensus on Rotten Tomatoes held that its light touch and fast pace carried the ensemble dramedy over bumpy patches, while the result still felt a little like going in circles.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/km0)
Spanish criticism placed the film in the context of the 1990s comedy formula Iborra and García Serrano had helped write for Gómez Pereira, which by 2000 had tired audiences; the reviewer noted that Km. 0 begins as a comedy of errors and gradually slides toward dramatic comedy with a poetic streak.[4](https://www.letrasgalegas.org/obra-visor/crticas-del-cine-espaol-1/html/ffa3430e-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.html)
## References
1. [Km. 0, ficha técnica, catálogo de películas, ICAA (Ministerio de Cultura de España)](https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/es-es/Peliculas/GetPdf?Pelicula=104399)
2. [Teresa Cendros (28 June 2000). "Concha Velasco protagoniza 'Km. 0' junto a 13 jóvenes actores". El País.](https://elpais.com/diario/2000/06/28/cultura/962143213_850215.html)
3. [Km. 0, Google Play Movies listing](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/km_0?hl=es&id=DCAE7C225D39E7B4MV)
4. [Críticas del cine español, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes](https://www.letrasgalegas.org/obra-visor/crticas-del-cine-espaol-1/html/ffa3430e-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_2.html)
5. [Km. 0, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/km0)
6. [Km. 0, Zinema.com](https://www.microcritica.com/pelicula/2000/km0.htm)
7. [Km. 0 (2000), crítica, Decine21](https://decine21.com/peliculas/km-0-4838)
8. [KM. 0, Open Cinema (2011)](https://cinemaopen.blogspot.com/2011/02/km-0.html)
9. [Km. 0, Today in Movies](https://todayinmovies.com/movie/km-0)
10. [Km. 0, Premios Goya](https://www.premiosgoya.com/pelicula/km-0/)
11. [Km. 0 – Kilometer Zero critic reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/km-0---kilometer-zero/critic-reviews/)
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