I must agree with reviewer Sitenoise in regard to the "music video" scene. It was clichéd and pointless. I think the writers wanted to show the female character's playful side and the only thing they could think of was to have her bop around the room to a pop song. If that's the tack to take, then a few seconds of her singing along in the bathroom mirror would have been enough. But instead the movie veered off into an MTV cutaway. Why? Everything was going so well up until that point. To me it took some time to recover from that, because it took me out of the film itself; I was no longer watching a movie about two people attracted to each other and who acted on that attraction, and who then found that there was an emotional chemistry going on underneath their physical attraction - instead, the viewer was treated to a music video. It interrupted the tone.
The movie does regain its moorings after the "music vid" moment, and I was once again captivated by it. Other writers are correct when they say that Daniela is the most compelling character; she has the greater mystery attached to her and I found myself wanting to know afterward what happened to her. At times the actress reminded me of the great Juliette Binoche, in her faraway glances that conveyed such ineffable loneliness and melancholy.
A useful comparison, if you've seen this or are going to: also watch "Room In Rome", which is the same basic story, except that the two lovers are both women.
The movie does regain its moorings after the "music vid" moment, and I was once again captivated by it. Other writers are correct when they say that Daniela is the most compelling character; she has the greater mystery attached to her and I found myself wanting to know afterward what happened to her. At times the actress reminded me of the great Juliette Binoche, in her faraway glances that conveyed such ineffable loneliness and melancholy.
A useful comparison, if you've seen this or are going to: also watch "Room In Rome", which is the same basic story, except that the two lovers are both women.