We first meet Tomas, a recently divorced college professor, in bed with an underage student. The girl seems well adjusted and mature enough to be having an affair with an older man. Then we are taken to see the other characters, who as the story has it, are all inter connected, one way or another.
This is a multi story movie in which adult relationships are closely examined. There are Mario and Sara. He is an architect, and she is an actress. Sara has been acting strange and Mario finds out it's because her liaison with one of the actors of the play she has been rehearsing. Monica, who is in media, one days runs into a former schoolmate,Ana,. who is now a successful photographer. Her marriage to Manu is going through some turbulence and the appearance of Ana seems like a diversion.
The most pathetic of the friends we meet is Sofia, a lonely woman that has seen her youth go by, and while her friends are married, or having relationships, she is all alone. It's her loneliness that makes her lie about her love life. She tells her friends she has been seeing a French man, when in reality nothing has happened between them.
Cesc Gay, a wonderful director, based in Barcelona, shows he really knows all these people. He doesn't hold any punches as he practically x-rays all the characters he examines with accuracy. The director of the fine "Krampack", is up to task in this movie where lives inter play in ways that surprise the viewer, as he is not afraid to show all the intensity behind what appear to be bourgeois living in Barcelona.
Edoard Fernandez, who was wonderful in "Fausto 5.0", shows up as Mario, in a performance where he is hardly recognizable. Wonderful also is Maria Pujalte, the epitome of a lonely woman who resorts to lies in order to hide from her friends how really alone she is. Monica Lopez, Alex Brendenmuhl, Chisco Amado, Vicenta N'Dongo, and Leonor Watling are seen as part of the group of friends being examined in the film.
The film clearly shows a mature Cesc Gay, one of the best directors working today in the Spanish cinema.
This is a multi story movie in which adult relationships are closely examined. There are Mario and Sara. He is an architect, and she is an actress. Sara has been acting strange and Mario finds out it's because her liaison with one of the actors of the play she has been rehearsing. Monica, who is in media, one days runs into a former schoolmate,Ana,. who is now a successful photographer. Her marriage to Manu is going through some turbulence and the appearance of Ana seems like a diversion.
The most pathetic of the friends we meet is Sofia, a lonely woman that has seen her youth go by, and while her friends are married, or having relationships, she is all alone. It's her loneliness that makes her lie about her love life. She tells her friends she has been seeing a French man, when in reality nothing has happened between them.
Cesc Gay, a wonderful director, based in Barcelona, shows he really knows all these people. He doesn't hold any punches as he practically x-rays all the characters he examines with accuracy. The director of the fine "Krampack", is up to task in this movie where lives inter play in ways that surprise the viewer, as he is not afraid to show all the intensity behind what appear to be bourgeois living in Barcelona.
Edoard Fernandez, who was wonderful in "Fausto 5.0", shows up as Mario, in a performance where he is hardly recognizable. Wonderful also is Maria Pujalte, the epitome of a lonely woman who resorts to lies in order to hide from her friends how really alone she is. Monica Lopez, Alex Brendenmuhl, Chisco Amado, Vicenta N'Dongo, and Leonor Watling are seen as part of the group of friends being examined in the film.
The film clearly shows a mature Cesc Gay, one of the best directors working today in the Spanish cinema.