Yo soy el que tú buscas (1988) (TV)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Jaime Chávarri

Writers:

Jaime Chávarri (writer)
Gabriel García Márquez (story)
(more)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge...

Cast

Patricia Adriani	...	Natalia
Chus Lampreave
Ricard Borràs
Toni Cantó
Ángel Alcázar
Marta Fernández Muro
Myriam De Maeztu
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Muntsa Alcañiz	...	La mujer
Damián Contreras
Carlos Hipólito

Directed by
Jaime Chávarri

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jaime Chávarri		writer
Gabriel García Márquez		story
Juan Tébar		writer

Produced by
Pastora Díaz	....	producer

Original Music by
Francisco Guerrero

Cinematography by
Carlos Suárez

Film Editing by
Javier Morán

Production Design by
Miguel Díaz Ors

Sound Department
Manuel Rubio	....	sound

Editorial Department
Bela María da Costa	....	assistant editor
Susana Ocaña	....	assistant editor
Antonio Pérez Reina	....	assistant editor

Production Companies

• Televisión Española (TVE)
• Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributors

• Radio Televisión Española (RTVE)

Also Known As:

Amores difíciles: Yo soy el que tú buscas (Spain)
I Am Who You Are Looking for
I'm the One You're Looking For (USA)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Austria | Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Televisión Española (TVE)

A movie as stupid as it is insensitive...

I watched this film only because I had a list of foreign language films I was working through. As a previous reviewer mentioned, this is not a film for feminists - or for persons with any degree of compassion or good taste. Both sensibilities will be offended. At least the sets don't wiggle. A woman, Natalia, gets raped after offering an injured motorcyclist a ride and becomes obsessed with finding the motorcyclist because it turns out she's now in love with him. Cute. In the process of searching, she gets raped two more times by two thugs fighting over who gets to rape her first (I guess that was the 'erotic' part). An onlooker to this event is a bizarre man going by the nickname 'Salamander' who falls in love with Natalia. Salamander is an unattractive but sympathetic character who has a cabaret act involving him wearing a Dr. Frankenfurter-esque outfit and breathing fire. Apparently Salamander is so naturally hot he can heat cups of cold coffee with his bare hands and then bursts into flames later on out of his passion for Natalia. Natalia of course can't fall in love back since Salamander is unattractive (nice guys don't win, etc). Other goofy motifs include: 1) astrology readings set to annoying classical music, 2) slot machines with Nintendo-esque musical accompaniment, 3) a wo/man bartender who was herself raped and later started growing a beard out of primal self-defense, 4) and Natalia's husband who hasn't the faintest idea or care as to why his wife is out every night, never goes to work anymore, etc. The most level-headed and least annoying character is a woman taxi-driver who befriends Natalia. A movie for MST3K if only foreign-language rape-as-love-story films were in their repertoire.