"Besos de gato" ("Cat kisses"), a mature, fine film

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I am not sure about how the title of this film, once it goes abroad, while IÂ´d bet on that one.
It is a mature, excellent film, directed Rafael Alcantara, who collaborated in writing the script, based in a "False movement", a novel by Alejandro Gandara. It has just two main characters holding the weight of a dense story, told with an excellent dramatic pulse, in a clean language, with good photography. And, as it frequently happens with good films, and with good books, it keeps going on inside the viewerÂ´s, or readerÂ´s, mind once the "End" word has been read...
Synopsis: Fran, a highly successful lawyer, who is making big money by helping dubious people in their dirty businesses, comes home at night, just to be told by his wife that his sixteen-year old daughter has not come back, and that she fears sheÂ´s in trouble. After some angry discussion, he finally leaves to try to find her in the usual night places in Madrid (discos et al), and once he finds her, she tells him that itÂ´s her boyfriend who has disappeared, and they start a new search, this time for a boy he doesnÂ´t know, but who he feels is no good for his daughter. During this search, all happening in one only night, they go through the darkest side of nightlife in a big town, and he is forced to show to his daughter different aspects of his own hidden side, which he has to face himself, thus becoming a true descent to hell, through which he will recover his own soul, and the love of his daughter, while it is a bit late for him now...
As the film developes, so do both characters, both gaining depth and being literally transformed into better, more mature persons, in a way no sensible viewer can miss, the daughter living a rite of passage which makes a woman from a confused girl, the father recovering a rich soul he had somehow lost along his former life, and the experience leaving the viewer awed, shocked, and enriched.
I donÂ´t know when will this film be available in your shores. But it deserves being earmarked and looked for. Of course it is not perfect, but its flaws are minimal, especially in front of the excellent work by both Juanjo PuigcorbÃ© (the father), Leticia Dolera (the girl), and a few supporting actors, and the excellent job of its director, with a good photography, and no special effects.
No need to say how I enjoyed it: this one is being an annus mirabilis for Spanish cinematography!
Regards
BF

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Topic - "Besos de gato" ("Cat kisses"), a mature, fine film - orejones 04:16:22 05/21/03 (1)

Redemption ? - patrickU 04:38:46 05/21/03 (0)

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