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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Laura is a woman living in Mexico in an apartment by herself. She's a loner and works using the computer at her place. Her mother lives far away and she sometimes gets visited by her younger brother. Laura who is a yielding person doesn't want to displease others and tries to give them the impression that everything is normal in her life. When her mother asks her on the telephone what she had for dinner, she replies steak when she apparently eats a can of beans.Laura is having one night stands with different men and when she tries to initiate some form of contact other than purely sexual she gets very disappointed as her lovers do not follow. This changes when she meets Arturo, a man who is interested in rough and even paraphilic sex. They spend time together, talking, eating, watching t.v. It seems that Laura has finally founded the perfect lover and a person who can establish a relationship with. But as the story continues, Laura reveals a family history full of pain and confesses to Arturo that the 29th of February is the day when her dad passed away.Then a day before the anniversary of her father's death she tries to take advantage of Arturo's sadomasochistic preferences and asks him to brutally kill her while having sex. In other words she wants to commit assisted suicide. Laura is a deeply traumatized and lonely person. Something seriously went wrong with her life. Maybe she has been molested as a child, maybe not, but by whom nobody can tell for sure. What's missing in her life is a healthy, fulfilling relationship and some professional therapeutic help so she can stop being victimized and spying on the neighbors reaching for human touch.A film that reminds a lot of Amos Kollek's ''Sue'' (1997) about a tragic woman who is falling apart. Actress Monica del Carmen is very good and although the film takes place entirely in an apartment didn't make me feel discomfort or bored at all. Instead of Arturo who never showed up Laura's brother did. They talked, they remembered, they cried in each other's arms and the 29th of February passed welcoming March and giving Laura who smiles in front of the calendar an opportunity to put her life back together...!

A bleak study of loneliness set in a claustrophobic apartment in Mexico City featuring a fearless performance, or a masochistic one, take your pick, by Monica Del Carmen as Laura. Laura spends most of her days and nights in her joyless apartment spying on her neighbors and inventing relationships with them in her mind. She occasionally goes out to clubs and brings home men for unrewarding sex. They invariably leave her lonelier than before. She meets Arturo (Armando Hernandez) who brings a sado-masochistic satisfaction to her sexual life. Meanwhile she ominously checks off the dates of her calendar toward the end of the month marked in red. This film is as explicit as it needs to be and Laura's world is not easy to view. Director Michael Rowe has achieved the film he sat out to make, I'm sure, and the totality of the realism can be uncomfortable as it should be. By setting the movie entirely in the small apartment and by the astonishingly natural performance of Ms. Del Carmen, you feel, smell, and know this movie like it was a fever dream. You want to give Laura a big hug at the end. Not for the squeamish or near squeamish.

This is by far, the worst movie i've ever seen!!! If i would wanted to see a porn movie... i would rather have accessed into any free porn site and for sure, i could have seen a better quality of BDSM porn, than the vulgar, grotesque and meningless one this movie shows...Mexican films have become an easy way to watch meaningless sex, drugs and violence... nothing further than that... The topic just doesn't matter, there is always at least one of those in Mexican films...Plus, The acting of Año bisiesto's principal character is terrible! The phone calls she makes to brother and friend Raul, are just out of credibility... Cheap production, cheap direction, cheap creativity, cheap acting, cheap story... very expensive the cost of loosing time this way...

Laura's character is so complex. We see her living a superfluous life when she interacts with other characters, except for her brother Raul and a guy named Arturo. We descend to the darkest levels of the human psyche along with the main character and that exploration is highly successful by the director. The film is linear, with no jumps in time as does Inarritu or Guillermo Arriaga, and also includes sex scenes which are pretty explicit. Although it seems the movie is just porn, it goes beyond sex. The aesthetic is like simple and I think the merit of the movie is the story and how it show us the life of a lonely woman living on a big city. So, after painful and rough journey, perhaps it is possible to find hope and redemption. A great Mexican film.