Though this movie is categorized as fantasy, surreal would be more appropriate. The main plot device is the transmigration of the soul, in fact Ristol's, an actor's, soul and his lover Ana looking for it or rather him. Ana has gathered a rather motley group to assist her. There is the clumsy detective, who serves to have some slapstick moments in the movie; or a crazy woman, who gets somehow involved with the detective. There are two lovers, who also join the pursuit. And Constantino, a naive servant, who unwittingly delays Ristol's soul because he takes away the doll that is possessed by his soul. And there is a woman and her murderer, whom they also encounter.
This sounds like a pretty odd movie and yet it isn't. To me it was a wonderful journey of love and maybe the only way to show such a deep emotion. The way Ana is searching high and low, the narrow places she is getting herself into. Or my favourite scene, when Ristol, who in the meantime inhabits the murdered woman's body, meets and recognizes Ana, only to lose her yet again and how, in his final manifestation as a stone handed by Ana to the woman, he is calling out her name.
Last but not least I'd like to mention the cinematography, which displays some stunningly beautiful pictures of the Asturian seaside.
This sounds like a pretty odd movie and yet it isn't. To me it was a wonderful journey of love and maybe the only way to show such a deep emotion. The way Ana is searching high and low, the narrow places she is getting herself into. Or my favourite scene, when Ristol, who in the meantime inhabits the murdered woman's body, meets and recognizes Ana, only to lose her yet again and how, in his final manifestation as a stone handed by Ana to the woman, he is calling out her name.
Last but not least I'd like to mention the cinematography, which displays some stunningly beautiful pictures of the Asturian seaside.
