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Release Date:
2 November 2001 (Spain) moreTagline:
¿Hasta donde podria llegar una mujer por una pasion?Plot:
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina)... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Bernal And Girlfriend Are Expecting A Baby Boy (From WENN. 8 September 2008, 6:55 AM, PDT)
Bernal Confirms Baby Rumours
(From WENN. 14 August 2008, 5:01 AM, PDT)
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Young man loves older woman moreCast
(Credited cast)| Cecilia Roth | ... | Carmen Uranga | |
| Gael García Bernal | ... | Gustavo 'Gana' Bertolini | |
| Luis Ziembrowsky | ... | Alejandro Rossemberg | |
| Chunchuna Villafañe | ... | Sofía Uranga | |
| Lito Cruz | ... | Rodolfo Bertolini | |
| Carola Reyna | ... | Roxana Rodó | |
| Héctor Alterio | ... | Padre de Carmen | |
| Audry Gutierrez Alea | ... | Gladys | |
| Dolores Fonzi | ... | Ana Uranga | |
| Luis Machín | ... | Eduardo | |
| Eusebio Poncela | ... | Voz en Madrid (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Fabiana Cantilo | ... | Vecina | |
| Lucrecia Capello | ... | Amanda | |
| Fena della Maggiora | ... | Remisero 2 | |
| Yasmin Elias | ... | Vicky | |
| Monica Gonzaga | ... | Mujer Madura | |
| Azul Lombardía | ... | Periodista joven | |
| Javier Olmedo | ... | Remisero 1 | |
| Martín Pavlovsky | ... | Dueño Inmobiliaria | |
| Vivi Tellas | ... | Enfermera 1 | |
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Dolby DigitalFilming Locations:
Buenos Aires, Federal District, ArgentinaFun Stuff
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Continuity: When Carmen accidentally burns herself on the thick green candle in the restaurant, the candle itself is completely missing from the next shot of the table. It then reappears, lying on its side, in the long shot through the window from Ana's point of view. moreFAQ
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Okay, this might not be the best of all Latin American movies, and it certainly doesn't have the most plausible of all plots (much has been said about it already). But, let's be honest about this: I appreciate every opportunity to see the acting of Cecilia Roth and Gael Garcia Bernal, and here they are both brilliant. Gael, especially, as the boy-man who falls in love with the mysterious woman behind the wall, delivers a heartbreakingly vulnerable performance. To see him break down in the end when Carmen's secret is revealed, made me suffer with him. Cecilia, too, is pure gold, and her scenes together with Gael crackle with erotic tension. Carmen, who is unable to lead normal sexual relationships after the trauma of imprisonment and torture under the Argentinian dictatorship, needs other people to audibly perform sexual acts to get some satisfaction herself. She likes to listen to hired couples from an adjacent room but usually remains invisible herself. The first thing that strikes her about young Gustavo is his voice on an answer machine. Since the owner of said answer machine is a friend who runs a model agency and provides her with "performers", she chooses Gustavo to be her next visitor. First she listens to him having sex with a girl, then she wants him to come alone and read dirty novels to her. Their mutual interest grows and, eventually, the middleaged woman and the 22 year old man fall in love with each other. However, their happiness is doomed. Something they don't know about each other (or does Carmen know?) is bound to surface, and a tragedy of Greek dimensions unfolds when it does. I'm quite certain that, in the future, only hard core Gael and Cecilia fans will bother to check out this dimly lit curiosity. Count myself one of them. The DVD (Spanish with English subtitles) is not one to stumble across in your usual video store. All the more, I'm glad to own it now, and I'll certainly watch it again. To see (and hear!) Gael Garcia Bernal lie on a bed, reading erotic fiction to his invisible client, was worth the money alone