casch0101 Review of The Same Love, the Same Rain

The Same Love, the Same Rain (1999)

Beautiful film with terrific performance of Darin

[9/10 · 8 October 2006]

Don't miss this film This is the second film by Argentinian-born living in USA for more than 20 years, Juan José Campanella, that I watched. The first was "El Hijo De la Novia" (Oscar-nominated). I liked this one better. Argentinian movie critic Guillermo Ravaschivo (from "cineismo.com") didn't like it at all in spite of his reckoning of the film's good values...but I suspect he is too bitter a person to like this film (or many others, for that matter). This is a wonderful film. The political issues (as well as the rest) are just a backyard scenery for the close-up given to this particular LOVE of Jorge Pellegrini to Laura throughout more than 20 years, having met intimately but briefly twice after the first passionate and longer lasting time. I do agree the idea of people rebelling with strong verbal innuendos to their bosses would not yield the results herein depicted (i.e. the employee either remains employed or the employee is a "friend" of his boss and after his quitting still remain friend and in the job). But everyone, EVERY ACTOR in this movie is about perfect, and so is the idea and script. Juan Jose Campanella did absorb some Hollywoodish (especially TV-dian) mannerisms which show. But then, it is NOT a Hollywood film. Jorge Darin's performance alone is worth the whole films. Admittedely, both scripters wrote the script only with him in mind, all the time.