We've already seen this story in movies like "Peggy Sue" or "Back to the Future" and somehow the movie make worthwhile watch again the same plot about returning to the past and watch, understand and even feel sorry for the present.
By my first words on this commentary I guess I haven't to go much further summarizing this film's story. After her father goes back to his birth land to die, daughter of these complicated parents quit her plans of traveling abroad and go after her father. Somewhere, somehow, in the middle of her search she goes back to the past and watch how her parents become in love with each other.
The synopsis doesn't sound very attractive, the movie isn't creative, actually, but somehow the same old idea works once more here. There is depth in the characters, discreetly showed by their actions even the most ludicrous ones and at the same time an unashamedly taste for sentimentalism that attracted me and built all the fun in the movie. And the human aspect of the movie doesn't appeal us less than the capacity of amusement. First, in the present, we see this couple drowned in a relationship that we have any idea of "why" does they keep on trying to live together, since there's nothing between them beside fights, fights and fights. Then the movie goes on and we have the chance to see the beginning of the relationship. It was sweet, funny and lovely the way they cared for each other in the smallest things, the innocence of a so obvious love that try so hard and so unsuccessfully to hide itself. That's when the movie is able to thrill us. So we are back to the present again and once more we see (and it's so painful to watch) how such delicate love turns into something bitter, where each action and word is poisoned by bitterness and frustration. In any moment the movie give us the explanation for this transformation or to "how the girl could go back to the past"? It give us a hint when we see again one picture (a detail important on the movie) almost in the end and that made me conclude that, yeah, it was a dream but at least the director or screenwriter noticed how would be insulting to the viewers point the obvious.
The weakest parts are the ones that take place in the present, where the photography and performances are impregnated by an annoying realism. But it doesn't spoil the whole movie and it's still able to thrill and amuse one.
By my first words on this commentary I guess I haven't to go much further summarizing this film's story. After her father goes back to his birth land to die, daughter of these complicated parents quit her plans of traveling abroad and go after her father. Somewhere, somehow, in the middle of her search she goes back to the past and watch how her parents become in love with each other.
The synopsis doesn't sound very attractive, the movie isn't creative, actually, but somehow the same old idea works once more here. There is depth in the characters, discreetly showed by their actions even the most ludicrous ones and at the same time an unashamedly taste for sentimentalism that attracted me and built all the fun in the movie. And the human aspect of the movie doesn't appeal us less than the capacity of amusement. First, in the present, we see this couple drowned in a relationship that we have any idea of "why" does they keep on trying to live together, since there's nothing between them beside fights, fights and fights. Then the movie goes on and we have the chance to see the beginning of the relationship. It was sweet, funny and lovely the way they cared for each other in the smallest things, the innocence of a so obvious love that try so hard and so unsuccessfully to hide itself. That's when the movie is able to thrill us. So we are back to the present again and once more we see (and it's so painful to watch) how such delicate love turns into something bitter, where each action and word is poisoned by bitterness and frustration. In any moment the movie give us the explanation for this transformation or to "how the girl could go back to the past"? It give us a hint when we see again one picture (a detail important on the movie) almost in the end and that made me conclude that, yeah, it was a dream but at least the director or screenwriter noticed how would be insulting to the viewers point the obvious.
The weakest parts are the ones that take place in the present, where the photography and performances are impregnated by an annoying realism. But it doesn't spoil the whole movie and it's still able to thrill and amuse one.