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Apuesta por un Amor

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The mexican soap opera was one of the best that I have ever seen. While it was being aired I caught about 90% of it. I was so disapointed after I complety watch the dvd in full. It as nearly a third of it cut out. Most of the non critical scenes were deleted. Everything about Julia's sister Soledad was basically deleted. The part where she tries to play it off like she's pregnant by Gabriel was deleted. Everything about here having to choose between Samuel, and Leandro was deleted. Ever thing about Alvaro mis treating Lucero was deleted and just about everything about Lucero and Ramon was cut out. Everything about Julia and Sebastian's almost relationship was deleted. The whole funeral scene where Julia's first son dies is gone. Most of Nadia and Alvaro relationship hardly happend. This was just a huge disapointment for me. Please let me know if there is anywhere where I can get a full length version of it.

When most people think about novelas or soap operas many people roll their eyes and believe it is the same melodramatic situations that repeat in each story over and over again. Well... they're right! Novelas are melodramatic, they are unbelievable and if you are a hopeless romantic like myself then you will always want to watch a novela at least once in a while because it is highly entertaining now back to the novela Apuesta Por Un Amor. I happened to watch this novela while it was being shown on Unvision last year and it had me hooked the moment I heard Luis Miguels song "Que Seas Feliz", as the novelas intro. This is the story about a young proud and strong willed woman by the name of Julia Montano known in town as "la Potra" (which in spanish means black stallion), daughter of a rich ranch holder in the state of Yucatan she challenges the mexican macho philosophy that both her brother and father have that a womans place should be in the house. Training horses, and managing her fathers estate she proves to her father than she is more than just the housekeeper thereby earning the respect of her father. However life takes an unexpected turn when she catches her fiance cheating on her with her best friend, her brother mistreating the womenfolk in town, and most importantly the arrival of an evil stepmother who only wants the wealth of her fathers estate. With her life in chaos Julia is distrustful and cautious with men until a lone stranger comes in town by the name of Gabriel. A drifter and gambler Gabriel falls heads over heels over Julia. (of course he firsts sees her when she is skinny dipping in the river) and promises "la Potra" that by the end of the year whether she likes it or not she will be with him by his side, as his wife, and most importantly in his bed. And thus begins the romance, the suspense, and the drama that is unfolded in Apuesta Por Un Amor (which in english means Betting on Love) where love, loyalty, and courage trample over evil, envy, and infidelity.

The telenovela was great, I don't need to tell you that we all know it. Passion, love, hate everything are there! But the dvd is very badly edited, so many great scenes cut, so many moments are not shown fully. You can't really get a taste of apuesta por un amor with just the dvd.

Esta es la mejor telenovela que he visto en mucho tiempo las actuaciones de Paty y Juan son extraordinarias insuperables, nada que ver que la primera version colombiana de la Potra Zaina, Gracias por darnos la oportunidad de tenerla en casa.

This is a fabulous telenovela! I have even given this one to friends as a gift. I enjoyed this one from beginning to end. Some of the episodes are condensed but it really doesn't hurt the continuity of the video. This video was filmed in the Yucatan area and the scenery is breathtaking. I would highly recommend this video. This is a beautiful as well as entertaining video. The actors are attractive also. This is one of best!

the seller good,, the product no good it is cut, good stuff is cut off

This like all the telenovelas you'll get on DVD, it is heavily edited. I look forward to the day, likely years from now, when I will be able to purchase subtitled telenovelas in their complete form. That will most always be at least a couple dozen disc = costly. I own several of the Xenon novelas and Apuesta is definitely one of the smartest editing jobs. Apuest is more like watching a mini-series. Xenon didn't thrown in a lot of non sequitur scenes of subplots, involving characters, totally unrelated to the the central stories of hero and heroine, that would leave the viewer wondering, 'Who are these people and why are they saying and doing these things?' ...Xenon certainly has a history of such rough editing.
Apuesta's characters aren't overblown, i.e., two dimensional(cartoonlike), and the performances are WELL acted. The soundtrack hasn't been "messed with", the way they've done a few others. I'd say that overall, Apuesta is one of the top three I've viewed so far. After three years of studying Spanish grammar I am studying conversation. I don't own all those that are available with subtitles and there's a reason for that: My advice is to be wary of ANY novela edited to less than ten hours. It is simply impossible to put many weeks worth of a novela's original t.v. broadcast into so small a format, and not do so by way of an editing hackjob.

The very best telenovela. The actors were very natural. the men looked like men; the women were great, all of them. The environs were original and very realistic. the story was very unusual and dramatic.

This novela has a tight plot that ticks along quickly. The cast are all good, and the locations are fabulous.

The main character's hacienda is actually a Starwood boutique hotel in the Yucatán, called "Hacienda Temozón." ($400/night: check it out online. It's beautiful. George and Laura Bush stayed there as guests of Felipe Calderón and his wife, Margarita.)

I can't vouch for the DVD, but I'd rather give a positive review to encourage at least getting a little bit of the show, if someone can't watch the entire novela.

I have become addicted 2 the DVD version of telenovelas. This is 1 of my favorites. Great story, the leading actors had great chemistry 2gether. Pretty good editing as well.