Con el amor no se juega

1991
1h 22m

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Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedd... Read allSusana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later t... Read allSusana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome so... Read all

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9salinasrodolfo

Unusual stories about how love relationships can happen or become true..

In the second part of the film, entitled "Don't fool with love". This tells the unusual way of coinciding between a radio announcer and one of her radio listeners, from which they find that many of their hobbies and tastes are the same. It is a love story like so many others, in which no one expects to find what they are looking for in the other, but coincidences do exist and sometimes there are many.

En la segunda parte de la cinta titulada "Con el amor no se juega". En esta se relata la forma tan inusual de coincidir de una locutora de radio y uno de sus radioescuchas, a partir de la cual encuentran que muchas de sus aficiones y gustos son los mismos. Es una historia de amor como tantas otras, en la cual nadie espera encontrar lo que busca en el otro, pero las coincidencias existen y a veces son muchas.

7lee_eisenberg

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea adapts Gabriel García Márquez

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was probably Cuba's most renowned director for decades. Over the years he turned out movies that looked at Cuban history, and the results of the revolution (sometimes looking critically at this). One of his most famous movies was 1994's "Strawberry and Chocolate", about a gay man having to hide his sexual orientation in 1979 Havana.

One of Gutiérrez Alea's lesser known movies was a segment of "Con el amor no se juega" ("Don't Fool with Love" in English), an adaptation of a Gabriel García Márquez novel. It's such an obscure movie that it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. Nonetheless, it's a perceptive look at relationships, whether focusing on a woman who falls for a soldier in a mirror, or on a relationship between a radio host an a listener. Not a great movie, but still clever.