Me sorprende cómo la gente juzga a este personaje desde una especie de atalaya de superioridad moral, desde una estupidez que me alucina.
If you are running away from somebody or something, a godforsaken village in the middle of nowhere should be at the bottom of your destination list. However, this is exactly where Nat (Laia Costa) finds herself, and, predictably enough, things don’t go well. The men in her way — the landlord (Luis Bermejo), Píter (Hugo Silva), and Andreas “the German” (Hovik Keuchkerian) — are all quite repulsive, albeit in their own ways. By embarking on an affair with Andreas, Nat is simply bound to be judged, by the villagers and the viewers alike. Isabel Coixet says in an interview that she is surprised by the latter’s reaction; on the contrary, I don’t find anything remotely surprising in that. Esto es lo que hay.
But wait. In Un amor, Coixet masterfully juggles the disturbing and the comic; the Riojan locations are breathtaking; and — a bit of a spoiler here — it all ends much better than expected. So long, assholes! The finale, with Nat reuniting with her true love, Sieso the dog, and dancing to Es wird wieder gut by Palast Orchester, is gloriously uplifting. It will make you (want to) dance too.
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