Não é Você, Sou Eu

A delightfully simple story, with simple and stereotypical characters:

The Hysteric wife, the insecure guy, the girl next door, the faithful friend with a simple life and a tighter grasp on reality. This movie delivers.

The comedy just works, and so does the drama. This movie clearly resembles Argetina's best intimate cinema, but is also modern and dynamic.

The cast is just great. Marcos Mundstock (The Analist) is a master of comedy (The presenter from Les Luthiers). Far away from playing a stock plot-filling Psychiatrist, he plays a very realistic (and Porteño) Analist, Cecilia Dopazo in this film proves that she's not only a great actress, but also a great writer. Peretti and Villamil, as usual, provide a solid acting and interact perfectly with each other.

A must see.

It's a very good movie, dynamic, with a plenty of scenes in which you can hear the audience laugh and laugh. Diego Peretti is a pleasure, he acts so good that this movie really worth it.Cecilia Dopazo is great here and it was really good to see her name in the Casting and in the texts also. Soledad Villamil is great especially after seeing her acting in " Locas de amor" a TV series shown in Montevideo last year.Her part its so different from that I have seen in this series that really surprises.

Marcos Mundstock it is not a surprise at all. This great comic actor known here for his career in " Les Luthiers" personalizes here a psychiatrist quite drunk in some parts.

And of course it is a great scene of a dog giving birth.Great, great, great shot.

Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in their new home, while Javier packs up in Argentina and prepares to start his new life in the States. While he is on the way to the airport, he receives a call from María telling him that she is confused and has been seeing someone else.

Funny, after an interesting start, a slow and almost boring development, a bit of a drag to watch, a simple plot but with little captivating content... Poor Javier, but women run away from this type of man, clingy and clingy in a way not very comfortable, a little insecure, a little boring and rather boring, as well as forced to the extreme, without the sense of inconvenience, needy and desperate... But at least he's good and made the right choice... Cute little movie...

NO SOS VOS, SOY YO (It's not you, it's me) is about an Javier and Maria, middle age Argentinean couple, living in a dangerous monotony, that decide to move to USA looking for better opportunities. Maria travels first, and few weeks later, announces Javier (her husband) that she had met somebody. The matrimony is over, and so is Javier's life. The movie comically (but sometimes very sour) documents his actions trying to overcome his depression about his failure in life, future and relationship.

The movie stands above almost every recent (failed) love history recently in cinema; mostly because it does a great effort to avoid common places and situations. Dialogs and situations are very realistic but funny. Sadly, many of the best jokes will be very difficult to understand without knowledge of the Argentinean Spanish. Ultimately, are the writers (one of them is the only good woman in the movie) who give up and go for the easy way out; probably to satisfy most of the public.

However, the main problem with the story is the main character. Diego Peretti is a very good actor (as is Soledad Villasmil, as the cheating wife), but his character is too real for his own good. It is unpleasant and very very difficult to like; making very difficult to feel any kind of sympathy for a person that you can bear even on the screen.

Overall, the movie is not bad at all. It is not an easy comedy but a light and finally optimistic drama.

I read an article today about what Argentines think of our cinema, its actors and directors. The most remembered movie chosen by more than the half of the questioned was "Nine Queens", a film that was released in the US; the best director was between the latter film director and Juan José Campanella, who has also worked around the world. The undeniable choice for best actor was Ricardo Darin…The second choice was Diego Peretti.

Peretti, a medic and psychiatrist, has played psychologists over the last few years and in his more important recent works: "Tiempo de Valientes" and the mini series "Locas de amor". He was a character impersonator/investigator in "Los Simuladores", an incredible hit in Argentine television. Summering it up, he's taken part in a lot of the most important projects Argentina made during the last and this decade.

Which takes me to "No sos vos, soy yo", an inspiring and fresh comedy starring Peretti (as a medic; gynecologist) in top form. His character Javier is a very humble man, who is very in love with his girlfriend and is very willing to do anything for her; for example, getting married to get a Green Card and leave to the United States. But as I always say, you can't be so nice and good because you get screwed; and his wife Maria (a notorious Soledad Villamil) screwed Javier.

The tile of the film is a common phrase that everyone uses when break-ups occur: "It's not you…It's me". That's bullshit. However, it is much more interesting to watch it in married couples than in teenagers. So when Maria tells Javier that she doesn't want him to join her in the States, he yells at her: "What? I left my job, I sold my car, I got rid of my things…I'm moving to another country with you!" Women don't always get it: the sacrifice.

Now Javier starts his journey to "move on", something we believe may not happen, just because he mentions Maria to every individual he encounters. He goes to live with his parents, bothers his best friends (a married couple with kids) having dinner with them and he goes to see an analyst (a splendid appearance by Marcos Mundstock). He tries dating, but when he has sex with Lola (the beautiful Eugenia Toba), he can't handle it…No commitment.

Juan Taratuto directed the movie, which doesn't seem completely in order although it is very long. He chose simple observation for his camera and gave a lot of room for his actors to improvise. Since they are all good, it wasn't a problem and it makes the movie funnier, you will tell. The surprise in the cast and in the film comes from Cecilia Dopazo. The actress, always charming, appears late in the picture, but plays a key role; and she does it perfectly.

Dopazo also wrote the film alongside Taratuto. They understand each other and make a great team to develop a plot like this one. "No sos vos, soy yo" will appeal more to adults, they'll identify themselves with the situation so they'll enjoy the film from a different point of view. But it is a good piece.