One of (many) great things about our library is that they have free film screenings every Tuesday. Thanks to the library, I watched great if rather obscure films such as Hrútar and Yes, we fuck! as well as “almost new” (i.e. recent but not in the theatres anymore) ones including Un monstruo viene a verme and, well, this one.
I went to see it knowing little more than the song, Se Muere Por Volver by Javier Limón. Not bad at all, but could have been so much better if it did not descend into a Bollywood-style melodrama. Most of the time, “Pé” is overplaying so that you almost hear her fellow actors rolling their eyes. And how on earth is possible that the character of Javier Bardem is one of the last to learn that he is the father of a, wait a minute, sixteen-year-old girl while, as the title states, everybody (else in the village) knows? Then, when you expect another twist and turn, the movie just ends.
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