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If you're willing to disregard the poor sound,dated methods of filming, and non English speaking dialogue you'll love this movie. I'm not Argentinian, but I saw this when I was a boy and I remember it to be quirky with charm about it. As an adult I was able to understand the language and innuendos better which made it more enjoyable. An isolated group of people living in two camps; one tormented by growing old and one conforming to it. These two collide and the characters are driven to extremes in order to preserve their way of life. Wonderful movie, very enjoyable, but I do suggest watching it with someone who is Argentinian.

Bad cinematography and unimaginative work with the camera are the only insolvent aspects of this wonderful fable about the human condition. The story of an elderly, faded major cinema star locked up in her suburban house dreaming with the past while she sees her old movies could remain us the figure of Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd). Also, there are a strange who came to the house and change the life of the four inhabitants. But this is not a film about the movies. It's about friendship and death, greed and decadence, madness and love. The black humor dominates the entire film and there are symbolic references to the `disappeared people' (the film was opened during the last military dictatorship of Argentina). The sensational cast were living legends of Argentinean cinema: Mecha Ortiz, Arturo Garcia Buhr, Mario Soficci, Narciso Ibañez Menta and Barbara Mujica. A must see (as Maltin use to said).