En la ciudad sin límites (2002)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Antonio Hernández

Writers:

Enrique Brasó (writer)
Antonio Hernández (writer)

Release Date:

1 March 2002 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Debes encontrar la salida

Plot:

Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the...

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Spanish Civil War | Number 708 | Gay Parent | Loyalty

Awards:

6 wins & 12 nominations

Cast

Leonardo Sbaraglia	...	Victor
Fernando Fernán Gómez	...	Max
Geraldine Chaplin	...	Marie
Ana Fernández	...	Carmen
Adriana Ozores	...	Pilar
Leticia Brédice	...	Eileen
Roberto Álvarez	...	Luis
Àlex Casanovas	...	Alberto
Mónica Estarreado	...	Beatriz
Alfredo Alcón	...	Rancel
Natacha Kucic	...	Isabelle
Jorge San José	...	Alejandro
Lorena López	...	Lorena
Alain Cipot	...	Pierre
Eduardo Torroja	...	Recepcionista 2

Also Known As:

The City of No Limits (Europe: English title) (Berlin film festival title)

Runtime:

125 min

Country:

Spain | Argentina

Language:

Spanish | French

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Netherlands:12 | Spain:13 | UK:12A

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Icónica S.A.

Trivia:

Director Cameo: [Antonio Hernández(I)]friend of Rancel (although credited, may pass unnoticed)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Victor is flying into Paris and looks out his window, the outdoor landscape scene is frozen and does not move as it should along with the flying plane.

Soundtrack:

Overnight Disco París

A thriller on feelings

An old man is dying of cancer in a hospital, but he has something to do first. He doesn't trust no one in his family (who has gathered around him in hospital) but his younger son, Victor, who just arrived from Argentina. He is the only one to notice that something's weird with his father...

Hollywood-like thrillers are serving as a cover to introduce deep, human-relation movies to the public. We've seen it in Lantana for instance. The big misteries, the fantastic intrigues we've seen so many times in conventional American movies are here changed for feelings. Although the movie develops as a thriller, with its intrigues and misteries, at the end we see that there's no bigger mistery than human relationships.

A very good way of wrapping a typical intimist European or Asian movie with an American-style thriller cover.