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Leandro Stivelman,
Antonella Costa,
Hugo Arana,
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Eliseo Subiela
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: Not Rated
: Strand Home Video
: Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller, Costume Drama/Period Piece, Latin America, Erotica
: 85 min.
: Spanish
: English
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Argentinean filmmaker Eliseo Subiela directed this idiosyncratic drama that uses sex and love as a springboard for an exploration of bold philosophical ideas. Twenty-something Eloy (Leandro Stivelman) has a gift for walking on stilts that her inherited from his father, but while Dad tried to use this talent for creative purposes, Eloy has made a career out of his skill, wandering the city dressed as a high-rise sandwich to promote a diner. One day, a stumble causes Eloy to crash through a ceiling window into the bedroom of Elvira (Antonella Costa), an attractive older woman. Both Elvira and her mother (Maria Elena Ruaz) are convinced that a greater destiny has brought Eloy into her life, and she takes the young man under her wing. Eloy loves women and is delighted when Elvira expresses a powerfully sexual interest in him, but she's a student of tantric sex techniques, and as she opens his eyes to the possibilities of lovemaking, he's introduced to new worlds of eroticism that allow him to leave his body and travel through time and space. No Mires Para Abajo (aka Don't Look Down) received its North American premiere at the 2008 Guadalajara Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| A light-hearted fable
by MKaliher
June 1, 2009 - 2:51 AM PDT
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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When I rented this film, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Man Facing Southeast it isn't, but neither is it an episode of The Red Shoe Diaries. A young man who has begun sleep walking since the death of his beloved father steps into a rabbit hole of an open skylight and lands on a pretty, twenty-something woman's bed. Not only does the lady not toss the intruder out, she takes a shine to the inexperienced youngster and decides give him a free course in tantric yoga. Need I say this film requires suspending your disbelief?
While the plot isn't much thicker than that of Hung Wankerstein--incorporating the lad's chores as a gofer in a cemetery, other part-time work as a human sandwich, visions of his father, and scenes where some well-dressed dead guys line up outside the cemetery walls in the evening to enjoy the cooling breeze--the film is far from soft porn, and Sol Lopatin's cinematography is artful, you might even say exquisite, bathing lovely Antonella Costa and her partner Leandro Stivelman in a vibrant, mellow light that matches the cozy timbre of their encounters.
Sorry, America. No one gets shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death; there are no explosions or irresponsible driving, horrendously greedy oligarchs or murderous terrorists. No Mires para Abajo is simply a pleasing fantasy about wholesome, natural lovemaking, and a commentary on the fleeting nature of romance. And despite the costumes in the poster graphic, the film is set in contemporary Argentina. |
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