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Review:
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horrible script makes for a horrible movie. Even if the rest if it
is done brilliantly. Well, there are exceptions to that rule, but
this isn't one of them. This could have been a film that has
everything, but it's tragic flaw kills it.
We've got very pretty people in living in very pretty places
acting really stupid. This makes this romantic melodrama one of
the unintentional laugh-fests of the year.
Zoë(Barbara Mori) and Ignacio(Christian Meier) are an extremely
rich and beautiful couple living in an opulent suburb of Mexico
city. They have everything except a sex life. They both want a
kid, and not only because his mother(Angelica Aragon) keeps on
bringing up the subject either. But that's not the central
conflict of the film.
No, the conflict is between Iggie and his brother Gonzalo(Manolo
Cardona), a successful artist, who's very randy and rebellious. So
when Zoë decides to visit Gonzi at his latest show, they hook up
and he takes her home. It's all very innocent until her cel phone
somehow gets redial pushed and Iggie gets to hear some snippits of
conversation that he shouldn't have. Everything goes down hill
from there.
Bad blood between the brothers begins to boil, and poor Zoê has no
one to commiserate with but Boris(Bruno Bichir), her very gay
comic relief best buddy, who is the best thing in the film as we
don't get to see enough of Barbra Mori's naked breasts.
I mention this only because this is about sex, and we do see them
fleetingly quite a few times, but the dialogue is so horrendous,
and the plotting so stupid, that we don't really care what's going
to happen, even though it's telegraphed very early on. The stuff
about homosexual incest is entirely gratuitous and really does
nothing to forward the plot, except to inspire more giggles.
I saw this thing at a consumer screening, where most of the
audience got their tickets from newspapers and radio stations, and
they were on the floor with laughter. The guy next to me nearly
busted a gut, this means one thing: This is one for the books.
Worst foreign language film of the year, hands down.
Eric Lurio
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