Synopsis
A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), and José (a young man).
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Cast
- Darío GrandinettiAbelardo
- Gustavo AngaritaÓscar
- Elías SerranoRuperto
- Norma MerloAmelia
- María Laura GarcíaCeleste
- Guillermo GrandaJosé
- Blanca MorrisonCelina
- Edgar VargasGumercindo
- Jorge OrtizCura
- David MondaccaGastón
Recommendations
- 80
Chicago Reader
Enchanting, multilayered fable. - 75
New York Post
Comedy with a light-hearted flair. The cast is charming, and Garcia is especially easy on the eye. - 75
New York Daily News
The story is fascinating for its simplicity and its inherent truths about the downside of progress. - 70
Film.com
A modest picture with quiet ambitions that is likely to disappear into that lush tropical rainforest where so many films of this sort, some much worse and others much better, have all gone in time. Catch it while you can. - 60
The New York Times
An easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative: - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Delightful Bolivian comedy, which also works as a sly critique of mass media. - 50
Miami Herald
What appears to be the thrust of the story -- the unraveling of a society -- loses out to a tame, romantic triangle subplot. - 30
Village Voice
Agazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them.
