This movie takes a standard soap (telenovela) as a basis of actions that take place in it, but alters the style: much slower, more intelligent editing, and more intimate acting should bring it to another level, but it doesn't work out well. Acting is average at best, furthermore the film mixes too much elements in most scenes (e.g. the videophone scene is not very dramatic, nor very funny, which it could be both) and characters are pure abstractions of real people. The result is a movie that seems to linger forever, and tries to play the sentimentality card to keep its audience involved. It is film making without hardly any visual storytelling or interesting narrative structure: not very imaginative and sometimes even downright dull.
It is a pity that just this Argentinian movie became so famous outside its country because there is heaps of real film talent over there: Historias Minimas, Bolivia come to mind (or even Nueve Reinas).
It is a pity that just this Argentinian movie became so famous outside its country because there is heaps of real film talent over there: Historias Minimas, Bolivia come to mind (or even Nueve Reinas).