Roteiro de Casamento

In Argentina "boludo" or "pelotudo" mean literally "having big balls" but in everyday conversation the words actually mean idiot, moron or sometimes just clumsy or maladroit.

This movie pairs Adrian Suar and Valeria Bertuccelli, is directed by Juan Taratuto and scripted by Pablo Solarz, the four together for the second time; the first was A Boyfriend for my Wife (2008). Compared with A Boyfriend…this film is based on a more credible premise, and has some clever observations on playacting in real life and a few good jokes like Suar's screen name or a love scene with "Hitchcock music." However it does not wholly succeed; the script requires lengthy explanations from character to character that slow down the pace.

Suar and Bertuccelli play well together, and the rest of the actors do a very good job. You will enjoy the dialog better if you are familiar with Buenos Aires slang, otherwise much is lost in translation.

This film was one of the greatest commercial successes in the history of Argentine cinema. It was equally popular in Uruguay, on the other shore of the River Plate.

Director Taratuto has made a name for himself in the light comedy genre, but has also tackled successfully more ambitious material as in The Reconstruction (2013).

Well, this was a really smart and kind of intelectual rom com, until they had to wrap up the story and they kind of failed miserably.

A movie that touches the themes about what is love, if there is a limit in the extension of the honesty required for a couple to actually work in real life and not only theorically. There is a question of whatever "acting" has any part in loving another person or not.

All this, of course, in the middle of a fairly humorous movie, which fails to end it in a satisfaying way.

The third act gets a bit melodramatic and over the top, kind of escaping of giving any kind of answer or resolution to all the questions I THINK it raised (maybe it wasn't the intention). It chooses instead for a more literal interpretation of the problem of the couple (they are famous, and the press is not helping their relationship), instead of the more nuanced and psychological aspects.

But, it is a good movie. It just avoids aiming for more.