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24 September 1999 (Spain)
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Early morning in the oat fields of Carranco, Ramón runs into the dead body of his secret teenage love Adela...
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(Credited cast)| Diego Luna | ... | Ramón | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Héctor Alterio | ... | Justino | |
| Ana Álvarez | ... | Gabriela | |
| Vanessa Bauche | |||
| Arap Bethke | |||
| Odiseo Bichir | ... | Pascual | |
| Socorro Bonilla | ... | Clotilde | |
| Juan Carlos Colombo | ... | La Amistad | |
| Karra Elejalde | ... | El Gitano | |
| Flor Eduarda Gurrola | ... | Amiga (as Edwarda Gurrola) | |
| Gabriel Retes | ... | Carmelo | |
| Ignacio Retes | ... | Marcelino | |
| Juan Claudio Retes | ... | Hombre ne lancha | |
| Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | |||
| Tina Romero | ... | La Chata | |
| Laila Saab | ... | Adela | |
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A Sweet Scent of Death (USA)
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This movie is basically a tele-novelization of Guillermo Arriaga's book "Un Dulce Olor a Muerte" (English translation available in the UK), and a movie which the author (also screenwriter of Amores Perros and 21 Grams) has rightly disavowed. Its poor acting and unauthentic portrayal of rural Mexico are a disgrace to Arriaga's novel. The makers of this movie failed to recognize ALL of the important literary themes in Arriaga's book - namely the visceral response and repulsion of death, and the impossible dead end/catch-22 of postmodern existence - themes which Arriaga continued to examine in Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
Please promise me that you will never see this movie and instead will do the following:
A) read the novel or B) go and watch Amores Perros
but preferably
C) do both.