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"Don't Fool with Love"
1990-92
Directed by Carlos Garcia Agraz / Jose Luis Garcia Agraz / Tomas Gutierrez
Alea
The short stories of Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia
Marquez inspired Don't Fool with Love, a trilogy of torrid tales
steeped in the style of Marquez's magic realism. In The Two Way Mirror
(Carlos Garcia Agraz, 1990, 27 minutes), a young woman about to wed the son
of a prominent family discovers that she can see through time in her bedroom
mirror, which begins a steamy romance with a 19th-century soldier. In
Saturday Night Thief (Jose Luis Garcia Agraz, 1992, 25 minutes), a
lonely woman whose husband is away finds herself strangely attracted to the
bandit who breaks into her mansion. And in Far Apart (1991, 27
minutes), famed Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea (Strawberry
and Chocolate, Memories of
Underdevelopment) spins a tragic yarn about two lovers' marriage
plans that go awry one fateful night in 1956, and a letter received by the
would-be bride 35 years later, leading her back. Spanish with English
subtitles. 91 minutes. |
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