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Le côté obscur du coeur

Original title: El lado oscuro del corazón
  • 1992
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  • 2h 7m
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7.3/10
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Le côté obscur du coeur (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 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 ... Read allOliveiro 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... Read allOliveiro 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 wha... Read all

  • Director
    • Eliseo Subiela
  • Writers
    • Mario Benedetti
    • Juan Gelman
    • Oliverio Girondo
  • Stars
    • Darío Grandinetti
    • Sandra Ballesteros
    • Nacha Guevara
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    4.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Eliseo Subiela
    • Writers
      • Mario Benedetti
      • Juan Gelman
      • Oliverio Girondo
    • Stars
      • Darío Grandinetti
      • Sandra Ballesteros
      • Nacha Guevara
    • 20User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 12 wins & 10 nominations total

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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
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Eliseo Subiela
    • Writers
      • Mario Benedetti
      • Juan Gelman
      • Oliverio Girondo
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    User reviews20

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    9DukeEman

    Poetry in motion.

    A film about a poet and his love for a hooker; the poet and his friendship with his artistic friends; the poet and his run-ins with the beautiful Death; the poet and his poems. A poetic film.
    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!
    8loco_serenata

    One of the best Subiela´s

    "El lado oscuro del corazón", is one of the best movies I´ve ever seen. Inspired in the life of Oliverio Girondo, (a great argentinian writer, intelectual father of Jorge Luis Borges, transgressor in the 30´s) it talks about life and love. The desperate search of Oliverio for a woman who could levitate after making love. Oliverio travels alternatively from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and each travel is a fantastic portrait of both cities, meanwhile the fears of Oliverio arise to a climax Don´t miss it, if you like poetry
    10spanky-37

    Poesía en opera

    I believe there are few films that can actually touch the core of someone's soul the way Eliseo Subiela does it in this film.

    Subiela´s view of life through poetry is outstanding and the magical reality that surrounds the characters transport you to a dimension only felt in the enchanting coasts of Argentina
    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!

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    • Trivia
      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 Lieu Dans le Monde (1992) (A Place in the World) which was later the only film in Academy Awards history to have been removed from the final ballot.
    • Quotes

      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.

    • Connections
      Featured in Cine Invisible (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      Algo contigo
      Written by Chico Novarro

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

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    • Release date
      • April 29, 1998 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Argentina
      • Canada
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • German
    • Also known as
      • The Dark Side of the Heart
    • Filming locations
      • Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
    • Production companies
      • CQ3 Films
      • Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)
      • Max Films Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 7m(127 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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