Everyone needs money. Marcela a South American immigrant living in Spain is pregnant--her hustling husband wants to set up a flower store and needs to make payments on a refrigerator--the children of Almador need his pension to complete their new house. A 50s something prostitute visits Almador once a week for 30 Euros.
The source of the money is the pension of Almador,a bed ridden sick elderly man, who Marcela is hired to take care of.
He dies. How do you keep the money coming in at least in the short run?
The actress who does Marcela is great...just perfect but so is the prostitute. There are attempts at comedy but somehow they don't work very well since you have in your mind the whole time of how the cadaver must look and smell--not something that puts you in a mood to laugh.
Is it possible for a film noir to attempt humor that is what this movie does.
Beautifully filmed and acted and different. There are lots of things you can read into it too....wilted flowers...the refrigerator making a noise when the door is open....the rotting cadaver all of it ties together.
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The source of the money is the pension of Almador,a bed ridden sick elderly man, who Marcela is hired to take care of.
He dies. How do you keep the money coming in at least in the short run?
The actress who does Marcela is great...just perfect but so is the prostitute. There are attempts at comedy but somehow they don't work very well since you have in your mind the whole time of how the cadaver must look and smell--not something that puts you in a mood to laugh.
Is it possible for a film noir to attempt humor that is what this movie does.
Beautifully filmed and acted and different. There are lots of things you can read into it too....wilted flowers...the refrigerator making a noise when the door is open....the rotting cadaver all of it ties together.
RECOMMEND