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What a beautiful movie!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

When we last saw Oliverio, he was a man that appeared to be lost when he finds himself alone, as Ana, the woman he really cared for, decides to go to Spain, without even thinking about him. Oliverio, as we meet him in this new sequel, goes away from Argentina and settles in Spain.In a way, this film was probably director Eusebio Subiela's comment on how he looked at the economic crisis he saw in his own country during those dark days in which a lot of people decided to go and look for a better life abroad.The movie, doesn't bear much resemblance with the previous one. The only thing that doesn't want to leave Oliverio is the figure of Death that follows him everywhere. The poetry of the previous film is not evident as much in this new movie, but at the same time, it doesn't have that fatalistic view because it is more positive than the previous one in that, at last, Oliverio, finds true love with a circus performer who dares him to take chances, the same way she does, when she performs on the high wire.Dario Grandinetti is a frequent collaborator of Mr. Subiela. They both are attuned to the work the director wants to extract from his actors. Ariadna Gil is seen as Alejandra, the girl who steals Oliverio's heart. Nacha Guevara and Sandra Ballesteros return again as Death and Ana.Although this is not one of Subiela's best pictures, it still has some good elements that will not disappoint his fans.

El lado oscuro del corazon (1992) is a great movie, full of poetry, or metaphores and yet, full of humour. Oh, and it has a story in it.Then, 10 years later, the director tried again... and gave us THIS. It's terrible. Nothing to do with the first one. A simple, plain story, with too many quotations (no matter they belong to great latin american authors, they seem here too cheesy, out of place) and stupid methaphores (sometimes too obvious, some others just boring). The old characters have lost all their spirit; the new ones are just cartoons of what they could be. Their relations are so stiff that you can't belive them... Do yourself a favour. If you saw the first film, forget there was a second one. You don't need it. If you haven't, do it -watch the first one and forget there was a second try of the director of getting some easy money thanks to the 10th anniversry of his only good movie. Remember, nobody will give you back the couple of hours you'd use in watching this film. So, if you can, avoid it.

I make this claim primarily to register some discussion and interest! Now I understand why the world is in such chaos: Thousands of people apparently see and vote for "pop" movies based on simplistic themes of "good" vs "evil" or "baddies are actually quite likeable once you know the whole sorry saga of the family history" (not mentioning any names). Such movies may well be great in their own way, but it seems a pity that so few people have seen and been moved by such magical films as "El Lado Oscuro del Corazon" (and this sequel), that deal with the real stuff of life in such creative and thought-provoking ways. Of course, IMDb is just about people's opinions, and I have no right to "insist" that this belongs higher up the rankings, etc., etc. True, but I can still pursue the dream that films about the little secrets of living with time, and death, and each other, will gradually touch more and more people.It was a long time for me between seeing the original and the sequel, but generally I felt that No 2 couldn't really maintain the levels of originality, wit and involvement that "El Lado Oscuro del Corazon" delivered. Ariadna Gil, however, is stunning - in terms of performance as well as presence, which makes the somewhat drawn-out later parts of the film quite bearable and forgivable. I suspect that different people may find the ending not entirely satisfying, but - without wanting to add any spoiler, I think it was a fine resolution.

I first saw this movie a few years ago - probably at Montreal Film Festival - and was pleased with everything I saw. At the time I had not seen the First ''Lado Oscuro de Corazon".Labelled as ''2'' this is not a true sequel but more a clin d'oeil to american cinema that so often gross us out on repeated capital exploitation of a weakstory line and benign subject for the sole purpose of attracting to the mass... this is not what we have here - but more like an interesting poetic broodling on the subject of Man/Woman mysteries