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Coming of age. In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He
studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does
advertising - handing out flyers while walking on ...
Director: Eliseo Subiela
Writer: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Antonella Costa, Leandro Stivelman, Hugo Arana |
Storyline :
Coming of age. In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does advertising - handing out flyers while walking on stilts or wearing an empanada costume. When his melancholy father dies, Eloy imagines that his father visits him at night; the explanation is more pedestrian - Eloy has started sleepwalking. Things change abruptly: while sleepwalking, he falls through an open skylight into the bed of Elvira, a young woman from Barcelona visiting her grandmother. Elvira invites Eloy to become her lover and teaches him Tantric sex. Eloy discovers bliss. And his father?
Movie Reviews :
Gorgeous
The fact that a
beautiful film like No mires para abajo receives a rating as low as this
can only mean that most people simply cannot look past the explicit
depiction of sex and nudity on film. It's a shame, because aside from
being quite erotic, it's actually a beautiful and sensitive film, a
piece of magical realism in the finest tradition of South American
authors like Márquez and Borges, and it deals with the organic and
spiritual links between life, death and sexuality with no attempt to
create controversy or to arouse in the usual sense, but rather to create
an atmosphere of magical, dreamy bliss.
To be fair, No mires para abajo gives only a glimpse into the dreamworld it describes; the film is very short, very small in scope, and it probably wouldn't have worked had it been longer - it's an image, rather than a complete story. The two main characters are intriguing, lovable and mysterious, but neither one is a full and complex character. But for what it is, it works beautifully. It's not a story with a beginning, a middle and an end; there's no arc, or character development, or conflict. It's just a beautiful short glimpse into a more beautiful side of our reality, and if you can look past the sex and nudity and enjoy it for what it is, it's highly recommended. It won't be to everybody's taste, to be sure, but it should never be dismissed as softcore porn.
To be fair, No mires para abajo gives only a glimpse into the dreamworld it describes; the film is very short, very small in scope, and it probably wouldn't have worked had it been longer - it's an image, rather than a complete story. The two main characters are intriguing, lovable and mysterious, but neither one is a full and complex character. But for what it is, it works beautifully. It's not a story with a beginning, a middle and an end; there's no arc, or character development, or conflict. It's just a beautiful short glimpse into a more beautiful side of our reality, and if you can look past the sex and nudity and enjoy it for what it is, it's highly recommended. It won't be to everybody's taste, to be sure, but it should never be dismissed as softcore porn.
