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Caresses

Country: Spain, Language: Spanish, 94 mins

Original Title

Carícies
  • Director: Ventura Pons
  • Writer: Sergi Belbel
  • Producer: Ventura Pons

CGiii Comment

Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde gets a makeover (again)...with disastrous results.

The 11 dreary, interlinked conversations will have you running, at full speed, towards a brick wall...a coma is more exciting.

The father and son in the bathtub vignette doesn't work...mainly due to the imbecilic writing.

Pons, Pons, Pons...your output far exceeds the thought behind it.

And...the Spanish dubbing is painful.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Eleven episodes portray different encounters in a large city during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium. A young man wants to stop living together with a young woman because he believes that they no longer have anything to say to each other. The young woman goes to visit her mother, an elderly woman. She lives with an old lesbian who meets her homeless brother. She asks him to forgive her for having seduced his wife all those years ago, but the brother pretends not to know who she is. A young boy attacks the homeless man. At first he tells him about his wild nights, then he knocks him to the ground and steals the old man's ring. At home the young boy has a bath and asks his father to join him in the tub. The boy's father has a girlfriend, a young woman. He intends to end their relationship... Eleven interlocking scenes that involve two characters, one of whom carries forward into the next scene, until the chain comes full circle.

Cast & Characters

David Selvas as Home jove;
Laura Conejero as Dona jove;
Julieta Serrano as Dona gran;
Montserrat Salvador as Dona vella;
Agustín González as Home vell;
Naím Thomas as Nen;
Sergi López as Home;
Mercè Pons as Noia;
Jordi Dauder as Home gran;
Roger Coma as Noi;
Rosa Maria Sardà as Dona;
Jordi Cercos;
Sandra Pascual;
Guillermo Pardevila