Daniel Freire, Diana Suarez, Elena Anaya
Lucia is a waitress who lives and works in Madrid. After what she believes to be the loss of her boyfriend, the tortured writer Lorenzo, she flees to a secluded island that he had often told her about...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 25, 2003
Stats: 1,101 reviews
"The first advantage is at the end of the story. It doesn't finish, it falls in a hole. And the story starts again halfway. The other advantage, and the biggest, is that you can change course along the way... If you let me. If you give me time."
A waitress falls in love with a novelist who has a secret in his past; parts of the movie describe their real love story, and parts are dramatizations of a novel the male lead is writing, with it largely left to the audience to decide which is which. Ambitious, multi-layered sto...( read more)
The earlier film by Julio Médem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) is a prelude to the kind of cinematography that this Spanish film director/writer presents here. I have read most of the other comments, but they don't do justice to it, mainly because of the lack of understanding the ...( read more)
One of the strangest storylines ever, which confuses the viewer throughout, that I think, is the beauty of this piece. There is something quite addictive about the story. This is a film that definitely benefits from multiple viewing
As I?m sure you will guess from its title ...( read more)
Seductive, profound, sensual, erotic, beautiful, deep, intoxicating... An absolutely gorgeous film, wether Paz Vega's physical beauty or Julio Medem's storytelling and directing are concerned. The kind of intelligent, thoughtful film about sex and love that Hollywood just can't m...( read more)
Between bedroom scenes, viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap. full review
Half-baked ponderings on the nature of fiction and reality. full review
[Medem] likes to toy with the mind of the audience, and he's good at it. full review
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