Sumas y restas (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Víctor Gaviria

Escritores:

Víctor Gaviria (writer)
Hugo Restrepo (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 septiembre 2005 (Colombia)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

During the 1980s in Medellín, Santiago, an engineer, gets involved in drug traffic to make a quick buck. |

Premios:

8 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Realism partially saves an otherwise wasted cliché

Reparto

Alonso Arias
María Isabel Gaviria
Fredy York Monsalve	...	El Duende
Ana María Naranjo
Fabio Restrepo	...	Gerardo
José Rincón
Juan Carlos Uribe	...	Santiago Restrepo
Ana Isabel Velásquez	...	Novia de gerardo

También conocida como:

Addictions and Subtractions (International: English title) (USA)

Duración:

108 min | Argentina:109 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

País:

Colombia | Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Argentina:13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Compañía:

Latin Cinema Group

Trivialidades:

None of the actors in this movie had any previous experience in acting.

Realism partially saves an otherwise wasted cliché

Besides the fact that – once more – a film about Colombia uses as its only resort the many times told story of Medellin's drug related violence during the 1980's, the film's unfortunate failing is the lack of adequate technical resources. If one can survive the monotony of unintelligible and intense sound, wild camera movements and jumpy edition, it is possible to recognize that Gaviria does succeed in insufflating credibility into the characters represented by natural actors, and does well in grasping the mood of the historic moment in which the plot takes place.

The story – specially the first thirty minutes – is utterly predictable and unbearably dull. The slang all along is unnecessarily heavy and boring. Despite all this, at the end one can have the vague sensation that, thanks to the interesting touch of realism and to the good job in actors' direction, the time spent in watching the movie was not completely wasted.