You're the one (una historia de entonces)

A movie in black and white about a very simple story, about the sadness of losing a person you love with that kind of love that should be forbidden. A movie about movies, about impossible love, about fanatism, about life. A story from those times, "una historia de entonces", with a talented director at his best. Another kind of cinema, the kind of cinema only a few chosen people can do.

This movie has been elected by the Spanish Academy of Cinematography to represent Spain at the Oscar's. In fact, I think it has a lot of possibilities to win. It's one of the best pictures I've seen lately. An elegant and delicate direction, warm and sentimental dialogues, superb performances by all the entire cast... make this film remain in your memory (and in a special place of the heart) once you've seen it. The way it touched me is simply magic.

When I first saw this movie I thought It was really the perfect movie. I liked every thing of it, and in fact, it is still one of my favourites movies. Not only cinematography or music, but also actors and almost everything is wonderful. Somepeople may thing this is a boring picture, but I think it's been made with a lot of sensibility and madurity. In my opinion, watching "You're the one" is like looking at a nice picture of a good painter such as Velázquez, Goya or Van Gohg.

With 'You're the One' José Luis Garcionce attempts again to create a reminiscent mood piece. However, I felt that the film was lacking. The use of black and white does give it a very classic feel of a movie from the 1950s (which is clearly what the director intended if that wasn't so obvious from the numerous references) but I felt that it would have been much more effective in colour because of the landscape and surroundings that are so stunningly captured by Raúl Pérez Cubero's cinematography. The colour could have been used to add to the atmosphere. The characters are interesting but the spoken lines are clichés. The soundtrack is adequate and the performances are competent. Julia Gutiérrez Caba and Ana Fernández standout. I appreciate the subtlety and the fact that director Garcionce has steered clear of melodrama. The film itself failed to engage me as a whole. I wouldn't say that watching ''You're the One' but in the end there wasn't much that resonated.

I saw this film in the Berlin film festival world premiere. I was deeply touched by the beauty of the Cinematography. The story can be really melodramatic, but because of the Cinematography and the fine performance of the actors, this film is for sure a breathtaking film.