And stay through the titles that roll at the end, there is one final joke that completes the experience. So, by watching this film, you get to spend a couple hours with these people. And if they are very smart, they talk sports.
If they are rich they talk about a cheap meal they had a restaurant. If they are gorgeous they don't wear makeup to accentuate it. The strongest people are those who can make the people around them feel good about themselves. There is nothing to say about the people or their interactions- they are just being themselves. When everything works perfectly, the writing, directing and the acting all you have is the unfolding of the story on the screen. I will not try to go into detail why this film was so beautiful. Maybe it was extra meaningful to me, since my Mother was like her, the rare person who did not suffer from her illness, but bathed in some blessed contentment. The demented mother, was depicted with just enough realism to give a taste of the true sadness of this disease, while not overwhelming the film with despair. There is a son with a broken marriage and barely tolerable relations with his ex whom he kept in contact with over the shared love of their daughter. We cut it off after twenty minutes and decided we may as well give this one a try. A contrived vehicle for brand name stars that delivered the audience and made a buck for the investors. We had just started to watch "Out of Sight" a Hollywood product that had George Clooney meeting his co-star "cute" in the trunk of a getaway car.
Set in present day Buenos Aires, it tells the story of Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo.
I down loaded it to my Tivo because of it's three star rating, but had no great desire to re-live my mothers long decline into that particular abyss. Son of the Bride (El Hijo de la Novia) (Reviewed March 28, 2002) Rating: Order this DVD through : Son of the Bride, written by Fernando Castets and Juan José Campanella, who also directed, is an utterly captivating little Argentine/Spanish co-production. Son of the Bride When I read the short description of this Argentinean film, "Son with broken marriage deals with his dads desire to renew marriage vows with his wife with Alzheimer's" I hesitated to watch it.
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