I have seen this movie as a kid and I did not understand it at all. Now I have watched it again and I now I understand some of the clues and turn of it.
I agree that this film is less about the plot and more about the ambient, giving the viewer a quiet, sympathetic and charm view of Montevideos city and moreover the ambient inside the "Palacio Salvo" building is also so great that each of those scenes could be taken from the movie and seen as short films without loosing their artistic value.
Also, the unexplainable scenes with the firemen using their water as "rain" make the plot much more confusing as it is. The characters have some sort of connection between them that could carry on with the plot and the intrigue, but there are a lot of questions that remains in the mind of the viewers: What is the connection between Baltazar Brum's suicide and Juan Carlos Onetti exile?, Why the French reporter is looking for the missing image of Brum's suicide? What is the connection between her and the "Moco" juvenile thief?, and so on.
Excellent piece of film art. Thumbs up!
I agree that this film is less about the plot and more about the ambient, giving the viewer a quiet, sympathetic and charm view of Montevideos city and moreover the ambient inside the "Palacio Salvo" building is also so great that each of those scenes could be taken from the movie and seen as short films without loosing their artistic value.
Also, the unexplainable scenes with the firemen using their water as "rain" make the plot much more confusing as it is. The characters have some sort of connection between them that could carry on with the plot and the intrigue, but there are a lot of questions that remains in the mind of the viewers: What is the connection between Baltazar Brum's suicide and Juan Carlos Onetti exile?, Why the French reporter is looking for the missing image of Brum's suicide? What is the connection between her and the "Moco" juvenile thief?, and so on.
Excellent piece of film art. Thumbs up!