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Surrealist Poetry Made into a Film
Not only is this my favorite film ever, but I was so obsessed by it that I researched all the amazing poetry in it (by Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman, and most of all Oliverio Girondo) and went to Argentina. The film is inspired by Girondo's book of poetry "Scarecrow" (Espantapajaros) from 1933, but set in contemporary (early 90s) Argentina and Uruguay just after the end of military rule. It is a romantic love story, but it is suffused with a poetic pensiveness, bits of magic realism (reminiscent of Garcia Marquez or Like Water for Chocolate) and a very moving emotional pensiveness. It follows the bohemian life of a poet in Buenos Aires, who hangs out with his friend a pornographic sculptor, pays for his meals with poems, converses with Death (personified) and searches for the woman who can fly. In Uruguay for work, he meets a prostitute and on subsequent visits, despite their fears, they fall (and fly) in love. I have forced all my friends to see this movie and would recommend this film to anyone, but most of all romantics or speakers of Spanish. Subiela is a genius: his other films "Man Facing Southeast" and "Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going" are also very much worth seeing.

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A wonderful surrealist and Magical Realism poetic experience
El lado oscuro del corazon(Dark Side of the Heart) is one of those unforgetable films in which the art of filmmaking becomes poetry. The poems of the great Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti are part of some beautiful and magnificent scenes.In fact Benedetti himself appears in one or two occations as a drunk German poet. The poem used for the story of this film is one of the best known poems of Oliverio Girondo (Argentina). Eliseo Subiela is one of the finest Directors of our International Cinema.

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Surreal and unusual
Dark Side of the Heart was a favorite on the International Film Festival circuit a few years back. That is where I first saw it. I was quite taken aback by the frank sexuality, the nudity, the six-foot sculpture of the male genitalia, etc. It didn't help that I was attending the showing with my high school Spanish teacher (she thought it would help me with my fluency). Perhaps the most shocking scene is the very opening, when - after a graphic sex scene - the male lead ... well, I don't want to give it away. Sorry.

Suffice it to say that this movie lives up to its title - it is dark. My favorite scene is when the lead male character is walking down the street and comes across a young punk rock girl with hair like a rooster.It's inexplicable. It has no pertinence to the rest of the movie, except perhaps to display the sort of surreal, indifferent hopelessness that is its core message.

Andrew Parodi