Elsa y Fred (2005)
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55% of critics liked it
(31 reviews) -
92% of users liked it
(5,234 ratings)
Two aging Spanish widowers find their fading passion for romance unexpectedly rekindled during a visit to Rome's Trevi Fountain in this romantic comedy starring China Zorrilla and Manuel Alexandre. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Marcos Carnevale
- Written By
- Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guerty
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 27, 2008 Limited
- On DVD
- Jul 5, 2006
- Studio
- Mitropoulos Films
Critic Reviews
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John Hartl, Seattle Times
In the end, only the veteran actors playing Elsa and Fred make the movie watchable.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
This starts to get interesting in the homestretch, as the woman's chronic deception begins to catch up with her, but for the most part it's an extended Geritol commercial.
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Dan Zak, Washington Post
Elsa & Fred feels not substantial enough to bear the weight of its themes. It dissolves like cotton candy, making proper digestion impossible.
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Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
For some, the movie will be an emotional paean to love at the twilight of life; to others, though, it's a contrived, manipulative film calculatedly sentimental and -- except for poor Alfredo -- totally false to life.
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Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Elsa & Fred is worth seeing just to admire how Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale avoids so much as a whiff of condescension.
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Cast
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Manuel Alexandre
as Fred
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China Zorrilla
as Elsa
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Blanca Portillo
as Cuca
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Roberto Carnaghi
as Gabriel
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José Ángel Egido
as Paco
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Omar Muñoz
as Javi
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Gonzalo Urtizberea
as Alejo
- Carlos Álvarez-Novoa
- Fanny Gautier
- Robert Carnaghl
