Product Details

• Actors: Ricardo Darín, Ingrid Rubio, Jimena Baron, Norberto Diaz
• Directors: Eduardo Mignogna
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Venevision
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002I83DQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,502 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Winner of numerous awards including a Spanish Goya for Best Spanish Language Film, this must-see film couples contemporary social themes with beautiful cinematography buoyed by an outstanding ensemble cast of some of Argentina's best actors of our time. The highway is deserted and dark when a violent accident occurs on the highway between a truck and a car. Among the twisted car metal pieces are the motionless bodies of a family: the father, the mother, a small boy and two bodies of a seventeen year old girl and her sister of eight. The ambulance arrives, and it is clear that only the two sisters Aetna and Carmela are still alive. From here on, both of them, only having each other, will have to face the uncertain destiny that awaits them. Their travels take them from Villa Victoria, the town they were born in, to Belen, at the other side of Uruguay, later to Colonia, Montevideo, San Ignacio, with its beautiful lighthouse, where they spend fleeting moments of happiness with Andy, a charming character, whom Carmela falls in love with and with whom she suffers her worse heartbreak when discovers his true sexual preference. Finally once they seem to have recovered and gotten their lives in order, Carmela suddenly and unexpectedly manifests her opposition with a passionate sense of over protectiveness, which ends in a painful confrontation that could result in the inevitable separation of the these two sisters who have endured so much together.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a waste of time!, January 17, 2008

By	R. Linero (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had great expectations for this movie given the excellent cast. However, I found that it is little more than a shameless tear-jerker that doesn't even begin to accomplish that. Ricardo Darin is under-utilized as he seldom has any scenes, and this is unforgivable in itself as he is clearly the most talented actor in the movie. No plot (other than again, the cheap tear-jerking repeated situations); no flow (booooring beyond comprehension); no climax (what a lame ending!).

Don't waste your time with this movie and instead, enjoy some of Darin's other movies where he IS actually allowed to have a scene or two.

4.0 out of 5 stars poetic, April 28, 2009

By	B. Cordula "iberica" (wien) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

i can not at all agree with the author of the first review! ingrid rubio is perfoming extremely well, just as ricardo darin! the story is poetic, full of emotions and if you don#t get the plot, it might be because you are not sensitive enough! two sisters who lost both of their parents and their brother in a car accident leave home in surch of new luck, new possibilities and trying to forget and overcome their grief. it is a long and not always easy odissey, lots of friendship, love, growing together and growing apart involved. I would not at all see it as a tear jerker, though i have shed tears now and then! it is a much too intelligent, subtile movie with depth, maybe not understandable by everybody. I recommend it! and i love it!