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Spoiler alert - some plot disclosure I saw this film because it got the best foreign film Oscar. It's a summer cottage romantic comedy. The house where it takes place is the best summer cottage I've seen in *any* summer cottage film. Aside from that, the film is breezy, pretty, and mindless. It's Spanish with some cultural twists that were new to me. The central premise is that a young man befriends a family with four daughters. He has sex with three of the daughters in turn (and in a variety of interesting settings) before settling on the fourth to marry. Hollywood would pass on a plot like this, because in America it isn't PC for a man to sample women in this way. Unless he pays for it somehow. FWIW - see the foreign film that didn't win - Farewell My Concubine. Brian
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| 505.1 | TOHOPE::WSA038::SATTERFIELD | Close enough for jazz. | Mon May 22 1995 12:51 | 10 | |
I finally got around to renting the disc and seeing this film. This must be one of the worst choices for a best foreign film Oscar in a long time. I was very disappointed in it and didn't finish watching it (a rarity for me). I felt it was bland, not very funny, and completly unconvincing. I can't beleive that the Academy choose this film over much more deserving competition. Randy | |||||