My love for this movie is mostly thanks to how much I adore the novel La Tía Julia y el Escribidor by Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa. Just like in the novel, the whacko Shakespeare of soap operas, Pedro Camacho (Pedro Carmichael in the film) steals the show. Peter Falk plays the writer who is only partially sane to begin with, then descends completely into the deep end as his prolific workload makes him blur his story lines.
Keanu Reeves should never have been permitted to attempt a Southern accent, and this is no criticism of Reeves. It's the director's fault. Accents are really difficult and an America Southern accent is more often butchered than not in Hollywood. It almost always just sounds like someone faking an accent. Few actors have the ear to pull off any sort of accent, and the failed attempts often destroy films.
Keanu Reeves should never have been permitted to attempt a Southern accent, and this is no criticism of Reeves. It's the director's fault. Accents are really difficult and an America Southern accent is more often butchered than not in Hollywood. It almost always just sounds like someone faking an accent. Few actors have the ear to pull off any sort of accent, and the failed attempts often destroy films.