... a decent enough film... she's very-enticing-alluring... Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) a saga-length-movie that's not an epic story... just a very long tale about pitfalls of one-open-relationship failing-marriage... very pretty looking, once you adjust to looking at various scenes for long stretches of time (much-lengthy-drone-footage, at times narrated)... films from creators that embody in their personal lives lots of what's in their work, somewhat mirroring their own lives are interesting... here this husband and wife team are portraying another husband and wife couple on a large Mexican ranch, and as so happens, it is 'their' ranch... there are lots of parts to this film.. scenes to be watched again independent of the entire movie, and they lose little of their influence
... so the story goes... the couple have three children, lots of help (appearing wealthy, he's a well known-established poet), and are partaking in an 'open' relationship, both having sex with others... yet in the film, we only see her with other men, not him with anyone... he's more the conspirator-voyeur as it pertains to her sex life... we don't even ever see them having sex together, (getting impression she's past that aspect of their relationship)... he speaks with the men, arranging for them to hook-up with her, and when possible he watches, or gets-insisting-on details from her regarding her sexual-encounters, then at times berates her for what naturally occurs during these-arranged-hookups... a very fancy (did mention lengthy, right) troubled-marriage-drama
... trouble arising, once she 'engages' with one of the ranch-hands (a 'gringo').. after having a hot-mid-afternoon-tryst with him, once returning home, without informing her husband (he found-out) .. seems they have an 'agreement-to-tell' each-other all... from there-on, it's all him confronting-her, being jealous-possessive, and her pushing away from him, because of his controlling-nature... fed up with his obsessions, she mostly desires being increasingly-distant from him... she knows she's better than any of them, and wants her independence to be free from all these conniving-controlling-men... is she in 'love' with this neighbor-rancher, could be.. after all she had fallen-hard in love with her husband, when he was then married, 15 years ago... with this new lover now also married, maybe she's just doing it over again to another man's wife
... very well acted, and produced, Natalia Lopez stands-out, enticing-throughout... it is half-hour/more too-lengthy, where scenes linger, and you find yourself asking when are they going to be over... anyway, it is one of those 'creative' works where reading several critics-reviews can be helpful... and once you have, another watch of the film could-should be in order, to get an expanded-more-informed vision of this work... is it a "masterpiece"... yes'es and no's are aplenty.
... best scene: ... when her lover along with his wife visit their ranch one evening, and her husband after convincing-insisting that she goes off to have sex with him... he then sneaks over to the casita they're in.. peeking through the windows watching them kiss-fondle-hookup, he then goes inside, standing at foot of the bed they're sharing... his wife wrapped arm-leg over the man's-torso, her head nestled on his chest, sharing an after-sex cigarette... neither of the naked-pair showing-having any concern-reaction towards the intruding-husband in the least... thus, entirely-encapsulating-all, regarding the completely-eroded-state of their-ending-marriage
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