Cosas que nunca te dije (1996)
Things I Never Told You (1996)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:28:03 | 3,41 Gb
Audio: English, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:28:03 | 3,41 Gb
Audio: English, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ann's boyfriend calls her from Prague. 25 days after leaving her at the airport he confess that he does not love her any more and that he is with another girl. Ann calls a phone line for desperate people finding Don at the other side of the line, a guy that seems unable to understand her problems. They meet by chance…
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The independent spirit that was immediately identified in Things I Never Told You when the film premiered remains one of its distinctive characteristics. With this movie (her second, after her debut Too old to die young, shot eight years before) Isabel Coixet began showing a group of recurrent themes and manners that today can be identified as her authorial imprint.
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The weight of the film is supported by very smart dialogues written in a naturalistic fashion. In the lines spoken by Ann, Don, and the rest, the audience may find that rare quality of indie film-making by virtue of which the characters’ conversations are both domestic and recognizable while somewhat original and unique.
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Visually, Things I Never Told You is characterized by long sustained shots and a relatively slow-paced editing. With this planning, the director lets the tensions of the frame flow with a considerable freedom, and also causes a feeling of anticipation in the audience. Sequences like the supermarket encounter between Ann and the ice-cream woman happen in a single shot, giving back to the dialogue (both verbal and bodily) a leading role in the story-telling, while stressing the illusion that the audience is in front of a live scene, watching from a set location.
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Coixet’s subtle style is perfected in highly emotional passages, such as the one in which Ann’s partner calls from Prague to break up their relationship. In the nearly four-minute-long sequence the camera steps back and forth along three positions (general, closer and close-up), coinciding with the level of intimacy of the couple’s conversation. As the energy of the room changes in this dramatic moment, with the leading woman passing from being flattered to heartbroken, the framing of the action accompanies the dramatic peaks and valleys, and contributes to filling up a telephonic scene where we only actually see and hear one end.
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The narration of the story is punctuated by different elements. Some of those are written words, such as the religious posters of a local church that periodically announce semi-spiritual mottos such as ‘Jesus said: how many tails can a lizard grow?’. Other text fragments which state the characters’ names divide chapter-like fragments of the film. These elements contribute to the audience’s gaining consciousness over the very act of storytelling that they are presented with.
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Some scenes of the movie resemble an advertising style and are revelatory of the director’s working expertise. Indeed, Isabel Coixet already had a wide experience as an advertising directive creator for television when she was directing Things I Never Told You. The influence of the very advertising-style language is plausible in the more subjective fragments of the movie, like the puzzle-like opening sequence. Here, while listening to a voice-over discourse of Don about the infinite possibilities of existence, the audience is presented with short fragments of evocative images: a cup of coffee falling into a bed of white papers; a travelling, upside-down image of someone lying on the floor with his clothes on; beautiful images of waves on a river’s surface; etc.
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Altogether the film is a statement about communication: the difficulties, shortcuts, originality and conventions in the acts of expressing human emotions. Both in the story and its shape, Isabel Coixet gets the message across, and shows subtlety, humour, talent and personality.
Cosas que nunca te dije (1996)
Engagingly offbeat take on the meeting-cute movie in which camera shop assistant Taylor, grieving over the boyfriend who left her, encounters McCarthy, a despairing real-estate salesman who comforts the lonely and depressed over a Samaritan-style phone line. Strong performances, quirky characterisations, and a seemingly wayward narrative with a capacity to surprise.TimeOUT
Cosas que nunca te dije (1996)
Special Features:
- Biofilmographies
- Trailer
- Introduction by director Isabel Coixet
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