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El viaje sin regreso

1946 · 85 min

A heavy, fatalistic melodrama that wraps you in doomed passion and slowly tightens toward an inescapable end.

Directed by
Pierre Chenal
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sebastián Chiola, Florence Marly, Francisco de Paula
Overview
At the core of this enormously bleak melodrama, there is a beautiful, passionate woman (Florence Marly, Chenal's wife) who capriciously oscillates between two men (Chiola, De Paula), even though she knows her fate is fatally linked to one of them.

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Directed by
Pierre Chenal
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sebastián Chiola, Florence Marly, Francisco de Paula
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • fate
  • love
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • death
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance6
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Pierre Chenal
Written by
Hugo Mac Dougall
Starring
Sebastián Chiola, Florence Marly, Francisco de Paula, Eloy Álvarez, Guillermo Battaglia, Iris Marga, Fausto Fornoni, Mercedes Gisper
Cinematography
Bob Roberts
Runtime
85 min
Country
Argentina
Languages
Spanish

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