Gael Garcia Bernal reteams with Pablo Larrain, his director on 'No' and 'Neruda,' starring with newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo in this marital drama set in the reggaetón dance world.
, Pablo Larrain returns to his native Chile with his first contemporary drama,. Set in the cinematically little-seen seaport of Valparaiso, this twisted story of both a marriage and an artistic collaboration thrown into crisis by a problematic adoption, and a young mother's byzantine plan to put things right, regrettably is also a rare misstep for the director.
The visually exciting excerpts of the large dance ensemble performing a piece by Gaston against an elaborate lighting backdrop that throbs like a radioactive planet, or developing a new work in which percussionists move among the dancers with drums strapped to their backs, make for arresting punctuation.
All the elements are present in the script by Guillermo Calderon , Larrain and Alejandro Moreno for a raw reflection on family, art and desire in which psychosexual melodrama, Greek tragedy and absurdist dark comedy collide, at times in mischievously amusing scenes. But the approach is so irritatingly mannered that the human pain at the center of the story feels artificial.
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