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Adorables mentiras

1992 · 108 min

A gentle, wry romantic comedy of mutual pretense, watching two people perform versions of themselves and slowly warm to the truth.

Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Alicia Bustamante, Jorge Cao, Carlos Cruz
Overview
Jose Luis, a young boy with aspirations to become a scriptwriter and director of cinema, is dazzled on having known the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he appears as the director who looks for a not professional actress. She, that the whole life has dreamed of being 'discovered' but that it is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They begin a relationship in wich both are not as they wanted to be.

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Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Alicia Bustamante, Jorge Cao, Carlos Cruz
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • deception
  • ambition
  • art
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Starring
Alicia Bustamante, Jorge Cao, Carlos Cruz, Monse Duany, Luis Alberto García, Mirta Ibarra, Rogelio Meneses, Silvia Planas
Runtime
108 min
Country
Spain, Cuba
Languages
Spanish

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