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The Dark Side of the Heart

1992 · 127 min

A dreamy, poetic drift through bohemian streets where love, death, and surreal whimsy blur into one another.

Directed by
Eliseo Subiela
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring
Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara
Overview
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

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Directed by
Eliseo Subiela
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring
Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • art
  • death
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour5
Realism4
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

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comedy, drama, romance
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