Product Details

• Actors: Thais Valdés, Nacho Lugo, Daisy Granados, Paula Ali, Verónica López
• Directors: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
• Writers: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Manuel Rodríguez
• Producers: Antonio Pérez Pérez, Camilo Vives, Sarah Halioua, Thierry Forte
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: First Run Features
• DVD Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0008FXT6E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,385 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Nada+ (Nada Mas)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Bottle-blonde Cuban pixie Carla (Thais Valdés) has worked at the post office for five years. It isn't a friendly place and she's lonely (her family lives in the US). When she accidentally damages a piece of mail, she recreates the missive in her own words. It's a love letter from a student to a professor and Carla helps bring them together. Then she opens and rewrites other letters, so that their meanings become more clear (sure, it's illegal, but it gives her life purpose). Along the way, she finds love with Christian Bale-lookalike César (Nacho Lugo). Set in Havana, the award-winning Nada+, or Nada Mas ("nothing more"), is shot in eye-catching black and white with dabs of luminous color and touches of stop-motion animation. Though the secondary cast overacts wildly at times, writer/director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti's feature debut reveals a keen eye and a vivid imagination. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Product Description

Carla, a postal worker in Havana, fulfills her romantic longings by opening letters and rewriting them into passionate prose before sending them out again to their intended recipients. After her co-worker Cesar catches her, Carla turns her amorous talents on him. But the dictatorial new postmaster and her overexcited assistant begin to suspect something’s up. Cuba’s 2003 Oscar entry, Nada+ combines visual humor, poetry, satire of Cuban bureaucracy and a lighthearted love story.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nada+, December 3, 2006

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kayt (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nada+ (Nada Mas) (DVD)

If you like independent films you will love this one. It's creative and fun. Don't let the fact that it's filmed in black and white discourage you from watching. Color is strategically inserted into the scenes to plunge you further into the neurotic world of Carla's postal obsession. For those of us who are prohibited from travelling to Cuba, you'll enjoy the forbidden scenery of Havana. If you liked the french film "Amelie," you'll love this movie!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a Cool Film, June 9, 2006

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Robert "A life-long reader that learns most t... (Midwestern United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nada+ (Nada Mas) (DVD)

What attracted me to this film, I do not really know. It was on the Spanish material shelf at the library, and I checked it out just to see what it was about. I'm glad I did: It was excellent!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars nada, March 25, 2008

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J. Kessler (MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nada+ (Nada Mas) (DVD)

In regards to the reviewer from NY disregard. This is a beautiful film that offers an independent and refreshing look at romance and compassion in a world filled with negativity. The "odd use of colors" and "overacting" is intentional and most likely done to capture the style of Latin American magical realism writers.