Category: Non-EnglishHaha, Bas Ek Pal (the Bollywood film) is totally ripped off from this film, I had to notice this - fucking ridiculous.
Moving to the review - If it wasn't for the exquisite sexual scenes present in this film, I'd have no problem in rating this higher but the situations sometimes contorted to produce these scenes is completely senseless and that's really annoying. He can't justify it, maybe his producers wanted to make full use of Francesa Meri's awesome body!
The movie follows Victor who was born in a time when Spain was far from free in terms of its political will. He meets and falls in love with Elena. Two cops Sancho and David enter in the film and a somewhat awkward situation results in David getting paralyzed from down under, Victor is sent to jail and Elena marries David out of guilt. There's also another character named Clara who keeps trying to find love with David (in the past) and Victor (in the present!) but fails. The final fiasco is hilarious and stupid.
To the other parts now - the cinematography is brilliant, there's a slight move away from the camera angles I saw in his last film, there's more reliance on editing but done very nicely. The movie is clearly about Madrid but gets waaaaaaaay too mixed up with it's confused characters and as a result falls somewhere between artsy and mainstream. I didn't like this part the most, I mean Pedro could have been clearer with his vision and the film thoroughly disapppoiints after the initial 20 minutes.
Recommendation level: 2.5/5 - Sigh, this was bad in a way but still there's some lighter moments and some sick dark comedy in here.
Quite confusing storyline, wasn't expected from the movie's poster layout which is almost similar to some porn movie with Jenna Jameson :D
ReplyDeleteYeah it's a confusing storyline, didn't like it so much - panned it :(
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