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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
A good one, except for the end.
A talented writer who's got a family and no money gets in touch with a sensual and mysterious man who offered him another way to earn money. From that point the film explores the relationship of the writer and his wife, till the sinking of their marriage. Explores the relation between the young writer and an old one, whose wife is hiring his services. And from all of that gets scenes with a high dramatical strength.
But... at the end the film goes too far.
They should cut off the last 10 or 15 minutes, where the writer is "saved" form his sins, and gets popular, and returns with his wife.
All the excellent work is then somehow broken, the good things get blur.
Great labor of all the actors, but specially of James Coburn.
In the Cut (2003)
Fine Story about desire and crime
Is this a film about desire and sex, or a film about crime? It's both. I really enjoyed it because each part of it must be in it. It's like fine jewelery, as passionate, as mysterious. On the desire side, you can wait to see a deep dive into a soul. The one of an introverted but fully sexual woman. She is the opposite to her sister. The dialectic between both women is one of the lines in getting in the mood of the situation. Pleasure, love, confidence, is only possible if we get over the apparent differences. But, is it possible to get over them in relationships with men?. Men are stupid, violent, whether they're intelligent or not. Men could be luxurious or just brutal, but they're going all time over they're own desire, not attempting to look at women's desire. On the crime side, I've got to say that is a crude film. You've got to be prepared. But the plot works well. The rhythm of the movie goes slowly, like steps going up a stair. Each step leads to an end.
Resistiré (2003)
Passion, Mystery, and visual quality
This is a story closer to a police story, or a horror story than a regular old-fashion love story. But the fact is that between the story about crime and criminals (they're in the business of illegal blood trade), and the situations involving almost fantastic situations, (on the edge of mystery and horror), between them, a love story appears like a flower in a war field. Such history is made of full passion, of strength and despair, almost to the last minute of the story. All the actors and actresses do their best. The best ones, from my point of view, were Fabián Vena (Mauricio), Carolina Fal (Martina), Claudio Quinteros (Andrés) and Carlos Kaspar (El Beby). Another thing to be stated is that the cinematography is not the usual one in a soap or a TV standard production. They've cared to have a first quality product, with a consistent visual style. You must see it.