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El misterio de la felicidad (2014)
An absolutely adorable love story!
The story begins with Eugenio and Santiago. They are lifelong friends and business partners who do everything together and know everything about each other.....so it seems. As the story begins to unfold, we immediately see that what Santiago doesn't know about Eugenio is a lot. The plot then thickens when one day Eugenio suddenly disappears. Laura is Eugenios 50 something, pill popping wife who shows up at her husbands store looking for him. The movie then takes off into a surprising direction as Laura and Santiagos quest to find Eugenio make them discover so many things about themselves. A delightful movie about love and change and the time of reckoning we must all face that had me laughing and crying and empathizing with all of the characters. The title fits so perfectly (El Misterio de la Felicidad)
Los condenados (2012)
Chilling with a Terrifying Twist
The movie is set in small town of Rosales in Puerto Rico. The town seems suspended in time where the homes are weather worn and the sky is perpetually gray. Ana is the young daughter of Dr Michael Puttnam, a cancer research scientist in Rosales, PR in 1965. Dr. Puttnam made breakthroughs with radiation as an effective treatment and cure for cancer in children. Ana comes to the time battered town to turn the old Puttnam cancer research facility in a museum to honor her father and his accomplishments. She invites the citizens of Rosales to a dinner party announcing the opening of the museum. The citizens include a handful of elderly, who seem to be the only inhabitants of Rosales. From the beginning we get a sense of loss and heartache that resonates from all the citizens especially a blind old woman who is against Ana and the museum from the start. This movie is about the choices that they made, the actions and consequences of these choices and lifelong regrets. What appeared to be salvation for many became hell on earth for others. Through flashbacks and the eventual shocking realizations of Ana and the inhabitants, we then begin to realize that what happened in Rosales was nothing to be honored or celebrated. Great acting and haunting music make this a movie you'll want to see more than once. I loved this movie.