I just watched this movie on Televisión Española and was excited because it was about Manuel Puig, the talented author of "La Traición de Rita Hayworth" and "Boquitas Pintadas" that I enjoyed so much being a teenager but... I am so disappointed with this film! It doesn't capture the personality of Puig (as far as I know, he was terribly funny) and doesn't capture either the creative process he went tr ought, not to say his opinions about literature or movies, which he loved so much. This film focus mainly in his homosexual affairs -boooring actually- without any other context. The dialogs are simple, every day stuff. The characters almost never say anything interesting and at the end of the film, if you haven't read Puig or know nothing about him, you can think its only another silly movie about a frustrated gay guy with a sad and boring life. Its a pity we never know, in this film, other aspects of his life; well, we don't even really know why he choose Mexico to live in! If you want be entertained for a couple of hours you should read the books I mentioned and laugh all the way.
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