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Title: Painfully Slow
Review: Despite good acting and a couple of amusingly realistic interactions between the characters, this tale of a young Argentine woman who returns from Buenos Aires to her hometown of Parana, sells her parents' house, attends a school reunion and then seeks to reunite with a former boyfriend is extremely uninvolving. The film drags and you never feel sympathy towards Ana, the protagonist.That is, until the movie's sole highlight: an excellent sequence in which the protagonist teaches a small kid how to court a girl. Its so touching and funny that one wishes the filmmakers would have included more scenes like that.The film also presumes too much familiarity with recent Argentine history. Without that background, the film won't seem to have a point. I would only recommend, and far from enthusiastically, the movie to die-hard fans of Argentine or Latin American cinema.
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