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Plot:
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years
before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote.
In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost
Lena, the love of his life. This man uses two names: Harry
Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary
works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name,
with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the
accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry
Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive
with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his
beloved Lena. In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks
to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his
faithful former production manager, Judit García, and
from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide. Since
he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive
blind man who has developed all his other senses in order
to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia.
He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity,
Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes
care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they
decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During
the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about
the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after
a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and he tells
Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of
entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child
a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo,
Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour
fou”, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of
power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible
story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of
two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co:
El Deseo
Release Date:
November 20, 2009 (NY)
December 11, 2009 (LA)
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