Wildly romantic, bewilderingly convoluted love story from Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle). Not only do you have to sort through a scrambled chronology, but, because one of the characters is a novelist, you also have to separate illustrated fiction from the facts on which the fiction might be based. All in all, the complexity of the narrative isn't put over nearly as well as the attractiveness of the cast or the sizzlingness of their sex. The natural beauty of their island hideaway fares less well in the bland, bleached, digital-video image. Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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