Product Details

• Actors: Manuela Vellés, Charlotte Rampling, Bebe, Asier Newman, Raúl Peńa
• Directors: Julio Medem
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Run Time: 118 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001D7ARO8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,954 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ana leads a sheltered existence with her father on Ibiza until a mysterious philanthropist (Charlotte Rampling) stumbles on Ana's artwork and invites her to Madrid to develop her skills as a painter. There Ana meets Said, a Berber refugee, and suddenly their passionate relationship leads to the discovery of other past lives that Ana appears to have had. As these are peeled away Ana begins to question who she is and her journey takes her across eras and continents on a voyage that goes far beyond self-discovery.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lovers of a different life, June 21, 2010

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D. Cross "D_Cross" (Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chaotic Ana (Region 1 DVD, USA/Canada Format) (Subtitled in English) (DVD)

Following up Julio Medem's previous 2 films - Lovers of the Arctic Circle and Sex Y Lucia - this is very similar in tone. Medem is great with creating a visually exciting world in which the viewer can easily get swept up in the beauty, magic, and sensuality of life. Just as the bleached out cinematography of Sex Y Lucia was integral to creating the dream-like atmosphere, here the use of vibrant, vivid colors works to suck us in to Ana's artistic world.

I don't want to spoil the plot, but let me say that the final act of the film really killed what was a mostly enjoyable movie. While nowhere near as good as his previous two, if you like those, you will certainly find something worthwhile here. It's hard to follow up a tour de force such as Sex Y Lucia, which in my mind put Medem even ahead of fellow Spaniard Pedro Almodovar, so there was bound to be some let down.

Overall, recommended for Medem fans, but be warned - it has a crappy ending (which is probably why it never saw a US release).