A movie about family, pain and unresolved past. The movie was set in the suburb area in Spain and also some of it took place in Madrid. In a village where people know each other very well and stayed together their whole life.
Raimunda, is a mother of a teenage girl, Paula. One day, her husband Paco tries to rape her daughter, Paula defend herself and accidentally killed her father. As a mother, Raimunda couldn't let her daughter take the blame, so he hid the body in a freezer.
Slowly, the past started to show, bit by bit. Started with a mother that should've been died for years, show herself. A big surprise for her first daughter, Soledad, which apparently together with the mother hide her existence in front of Raimunda. This lead us to another question, what's behind all of their actions? Every family has their own secrets, the revealing is the painful time.
We could imagine this movie happen to one of us. Although, I felt a little bit telenovela taste in the story. The story is so common, all of the actions that the cast take is so predictable, although the end is not so predictable.
Penelope Cruz played this movie very well, with her radiant face and body, she's the flower in the whole movie. Too bad, the other cast is not as beautiful as she is, everyone looks dull next to her. She's so perfect with the colorful skirts, shirts, but the rest of the crew is too common and it made them looks less interesting.
A good friend recommend me this movie, and this movie give me an insight about Spanish people. How they kiss like they meant it, and show their affection towards other people. Though I know the story from the first place, but somehow it didn't spoil the whole thing. It was good movie, but not my kind of taste probably.
I give this movie 3/5 stars!
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