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Oscuros Amores

2022 · 90 min

A wry, tangled Cuban comedy where grim romantic misadventures keep colliding in ways that feel both absurd and oddly tender.

Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Isabel Santos, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Yeny Soria
Tagline
Three dark love stories
Overview
Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.

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Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Isabel Santos, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Yeny Soria
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 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
  • deception
  • crime
  • obsession
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour5
Realism6
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Gerardo Chijona
Written by
Francisco García González
Starring
Isabel Santos, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Yeny Soria, Luis Alberto García, Yailin Coppola, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Vladimir Cruz, Enrique Molina
Music
Magda Rosa Galbán, Juan Antonio Leyva
Runtime
90 min
Country
Cuba
Languages
Spanish

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