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El lado oscuro del corazón

  • 1992
  • R
  • 2h 7min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,3/10
4295
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El lado oscuro del corazón (1992)
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
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Oliveiro è un giovane poeta che vive a Buenos Aires, dove a volte deve vendere le sue idee a un'agenzia pubblicitaria per guadagnarsi da vivere o scambiare le sue poesie per una bistecca.Oliveiro è un giovane poeta che vive a Buenos Aires, dove a volte deve vendere le sue idee a un'agenzia pubblicitaria per guadagnarsi da vivere o scambiare le sue poesie per una bistecca.Oliveiro è un giovane poeta che vive a Buenos Aires, dove a volte deve vendere le sue idee a un'agenzia pubblicitaria per guadagnarsi da vivere o scambiare le sue poesie per una bistecca.

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    • Eliseo Subiela
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Mario Benedetti
    • Juan Gelman
    • Oliverio Girondo
  • Star
    • Darío Grandinetti
    • Sandra Ballesteros
    • Nacha Guevara
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,3/10
    4295
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Eliseo Subiela
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Mario Benedetti
      • Juan Gelman
      • Oliverio Girondo
    • Star
      • Darío Grandinetti
      • Sandra Ballesteros
      • Nacha Guevara
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    • 11Recensioni della critica
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    Darío Grandinetti
    Darío Grandinetti
    • Oliverio
    Sandra Ballesteros
    • Ana
    Nacha Guevara
    Nacha Guevara
    • Muerte
    André Melançon
    André Melançon
    • Erik
    Jean Pierre Reguerraz
    Jean Pierre Reguerraz
    • Gustavo
    Mónica Galán
    Mónica Galán
    • Exesposa
    Inés Vernengo
    • Ciega
    Tito Haas
    • Parrillero
    Walter Soubrie
    • Vendedor zapatería
    Mario Benedetti
    Mario Benedetti
    • Marino que recita en alemán
    Pablo Brichta
    • Novio
    Miguel Ángel Solá
    Miguel Ángel Solá
    Juan Leyrado
    Juan Leyrado
    Hugo Arana
    Hugo Arana
    Carlos Gorriarena
    Salvador Sammaritano
    Jorge Lanata
    Jorge Lanata
    • Marino en cabaret leyendo diario
    Chela Ruíz
    Chela Ruíz
    • Vaca
    • (voce)
    • Regia
      • Eliseo Subiela
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Mario Benedetti
      • Juan Gelman
      • Oliverio Girondo
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    7Red-125

    Sex, death, and poetry

    The Argentinian film El lado oscuro del corazón (1992) was shown in the U.S. with the translated title The Dark Side of the Heart. The movie was written and directed by Eliseo Subiela.

    Darío Grandinetti plays Oliverio, an Argentinian poet. He travels to Montevideo where he meets Ana, played by Sandra Ballesteros. She's a beautiful prostitute. The fall in love--they have to fall in love--but she's very clear about the fact that he pays for every evening spent in her bed.

    The movie is not just about a poet, but about poetry. Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman, and Oliverio Girondo are three poets who are well known in Latin America. Characters in the movie--including Ana--recite their poetry.

    That was the problem for me with this film. Prose translates fairly well, but poetry doesn't.

    Nacha Guevara is the beautiful actor who portrays Death in the movie. She and Oliverio have long conversations. It's an interesting concept, like the knight playing chess against Death in Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957).

    The movie worked well on the small screen. It has a strong IMDb rating of 7.6. If I spoke Spanish, I would have given it a higher rating. I rated it 7.
    8howard.schumann

    An intoxicating mix of poetry, eroticism, and comic absurdity

    Eliseo Subiela's 1992 film The Dark Side of the Heart is an intoxicating mix of poetry, eroticism, and comic absurdity. The Argentine director, well known for such surrealistic films as Man Facing Southeast and The Last Images of the Shipwreck, outdoes expectations in Dark Side with more and better Latin-American style magic realism. The film has everything: lovers that levitate, a character having a conversation with a cow that represents his mother, talking to his other self that he keeps locked in a closet, having a heart-to-heart chat with the personification of Death (Nacha Guevara), and a love scene depicted as a roller coaster ride.

    Oliverio (Dario GrandinettI), a handsome poet seeks out the perfect woman, the girl that can fly. "I don't give a damn if a woman's breasts are like magnolias or figs," he says, "if her skin feels like peach or sandpaper ... {but} on no account whatsoever will I forgive a woman who cannot fly." Those that do not fulfill his standards are summarily dismissed. With the push of a button, a trap door opens on their side of the bed, sending them falling into the abyss. Living the life of an artist in Buenos Aires, Oliverio is self-absorbed to the point of narcissism and the film looks at the world mostly from his (the male) point of view. He spends his days looking for a handout by reciting lines of his poetry to motorists and to restaurant owners in search of a free meal.

    Oliverio has a friend Gustavo (André Mélancon) who insists on displaying his erotic sculptures in public but has to repeatedly bail him out of jail. The would-be poet travels to Montevideo in Uruguay where he finds Ana (Sandra Ballestros), a prostitute he tries to seduce by reciting the poetry of Mario Benedetti, only to find that she knows the poems as well as he. Refusing to fall for his too obvious come-ons, Ana is all business and rejects his obsessive pleas for romance. There's a little bit of politics as well, as Ana tells him that her husband was arrested and "disappeared" by Argentina's former dictatorship. Much to his surprise, he finds himself falling in love with Ana and pursues her until they can levitate together, soaring over tall buildings into the night sky. What better way is there to express love?
    8Imdbidia

    Greatly philosophical and poetic, although a bit thick

    Another magic and unmistakable film by the Argentinean director and screenwriter Eliseo Subiela.

    This is the story of Oliverio, a poor poet without success and his personal quest to find his perfect woman.

    This is a story of non-mainstream art and artists who live their lives fully, with coherence, and unconventionally. This is a movie about the importance of poetry and Art in daily life, and about how perfection can be sometimes found in somebody else's rubbish bin.

    In this movie, Subiela has the ability to talk about sex and passion in an explicit way, yet full of lyricism and without vulgarity. He harmoniously mixes the conscious, the subconscious and surrealist elements in an easy to understand way. Subiela creates a reality that is personal and real for dreamer Oliverio, real to him, although unreal to us. Subiela also creates a world of alternatives lives within reality as not everybody lives the same, thinks the same, or approaches reality and the world in the same way.

    This movie has memorable poetic dialogs, with the intervention of the late Argentinean poet Benedetti (who plays a small role and recites some poems in German in a brothel), the surreal conversations of Oliverio with Death (played by Nacha Guevara) as if they were two friends or lovers who have known each other forever, or his conversations on Time with a cow. In fact, there are so many magic moments in this film that they are impossible to list here.

    The downs of the movie are two to me. The first, is the performance by the leading actor, Dario Grandinetti, who I found painful to watch, as he overacts badly all the time; not even his gorgeous naked body was able to make me forget his performance. The second down is the footage, as the movie is 2 hours long and overcrowded with dialogs of great philosophical depth, which can bring you to desperation and give you a headache. I think that a reduction of the footage and the chopping of some of the scenes/dialogs would have helped the movie to get along in a more fluid way without losing any depth.

    This movie is full of magic, onirism, surrealism, poetry, and human depth. It is not easy to watch, but mesmerizing at the same time. However, you just have to be ready to watch it, as this is not a film for lazy watchers!
    8jotix100

    Death and the poet

    If not for anything else, Eliseo Subiela's "El lado oscuro del corazon" will introduce the casual viewer to the poetry of Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman, Oliverio Girondo as well as the director's own compositions. Eliseo Subiela is one of the best Argentine directors of all times, as this 1992 film clearly demonstrates.

    Oliverio, the taciturn man we meet at the beginning of the film, takes us on a trip to Montevideo where, one night, he meets the exotic Ana in a night club where prostitutes gather. It's clear the mutual attraction Oliverio and Ana feel toward one another the moment they set their eyes on each other. It appears that, at last, Oliverio has found the elusive woman who can fly with him. These two souls make love, but Ana, being a hooker, reminds Oliverio his time is up. What is even better, Oliverio, an amateur poet, meets his match in Ana, who loves and knows the texts he recites to her as a way of introduction.

    Oliverio has had his share of lovers. We see him making love to beautiful women, but none of them qualify as the one to fulfill his life. In a comic touch, Oliverio's bed is divided in two and when he finds a woman is not for him, he rings a bell in the night table and the other half of the bed opens up and the victim falls to an abyss.

    In order to survive, Oliverio free lances as well as write poetry which he and his two buddies, Erik and Gustavo trade for food to the friendly restaurant owner who loves to recite the poems to his fiancée. Oliverio is seen walking at night, as well as when he travels to Montevideo when he feels the urge to see Ana, and has long debates with a woman clad in black who is Death personified.

    One thing is clear, Oliverio can't have Ana, as she cleverly reminds him. Ana can't afford to be too generous with anyone. Ana obviously loves Oliverio, but she has other priorities that are only revealed at the end of the film. One of the best sequences in the film involves an erotic art exhibit by Erik that is not to be believed.

    Dario Grandinetti, the great Argentine actor, plays Oliverio with equal parts of charm and mystery. Mr. Grandinetti makes an invaluable contribution to the success of the film. He is the main reason for watching this forgotten film that is full of poetry and magic. Sandra Ballesteros is seen as Ana. Ms. Ballesteros is an equal match to Mr. Grandinetti. Nacha Guevara plays Death with panache. Ms. Guevara, who is one of the best cabaret and performance artists of Argentina, is a huge talent that Mr. Subiela utilizes to the best results in the movie. As Oliverio's buddies, Andre Melancon and Jean Pierre Reguerraz are perfect.

    The popular music by Mario Clavel, Osvaldo Montes, Chico Novarro and Fito Paez blend perfectly in the movie's atmosphere. The dark cinematography by Hugo Colace adds another dimension in our enjoyment of the film. Ultimately, this is Eliseo Subiela's triumph in a movie that is not only beautiful to look at, but to listen to the great poetry the director brings to it for our pleasure.
    10jandeakker

    The Best Romantic Movie yet

    This movie hit the box-offices in Argentina and drove the standard Hollywood movies out of their normal first places, concerning the numbers of spectators. And not without reason! The movie is not only a love story -the quest of a poet for the perfect woman- but also a story of the ´soul´ of Argentina. It is all about life and death and death in life. The style is superb: surreal shots are mixed with more ´real´shots that ensure the movie does not become totally vague and incomprehensible. The abundant use of poems adds to the magical, surreal, romantic character of the film. The movie kept (and keeps) me to my seat until the end. Subiela shows great love for film-making and this is reflected in this masterpiece. See it!

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      Official submission of Argentina for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 65th Academy Awards in 1993. When the Oscar nominations came out it was overlooked in favor of Un posto nel mondo (1992) (A Place in the World) which was later the only film in Academy Awards history to have been removed from the final ballot.
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      Oliverio: The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground

      Oliverio: I don't give a damn if if her skin feels like a peach or sandpaper It's irrelevant. if she wakes up with breath like an aphrodisiac or an insecticide. I'm perfectly willing to put up with a nose that'd win first prize at a carrot show. But on one thing I am intransigent. On no account whatsoever will I forgive a woman who cannot fly. If she can't,she'd better forget me.

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      Performed by María Martha Serra Lima and Los Panchos (as Trio Los Panchos)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 21 maggio 1992 (Argentina)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Argentina
      • Canada
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      • Spagnolo
      • Tedesco
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Buenos Aires, Distretto federale, Argentina
    • Aziende produttrici
      • CQ3 Films
      • Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)
      • Max Films Productions
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