The Dark Side of the Heart

El lado oscuro del corazón

Canada, Argentina

1992

127 Min

Color

1.85:1

German, Spanish

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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CAST Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, André Mélançon, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Miguel Ángel Solá

SOUND José Luis Díaz

Toronto, AFI FEST, Berlinale (Forum), Sundance

Synopsis

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sale his ideas to an advertising agencie in order to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. One night he meets a prostitute in a bar in Montevideo. Her name is Ana and soon he falls in love with her. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agencie to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what his searching for when his ideal of love’s pleasure is literaly going in levitation while making love? –Trigon Film

Director

Eliseo Subiela

Eliseo Alberto Subiela (born December 27, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and writer, whose works are considered to be in the ‘magic realism’ genre. Subiela is the father of actress, Guadalupe Subiela (who acted in her father’s film, Pequeños Milagros). He has won and been nominated for awards at the Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Istanbul and Havana film festivals, among others. —Wikipedia