Jennifer Conelly is not only beautiful, but a great actress. The problem is, she gets into appearing in bad films, with some exceptions. This is no exception. Filmed in my country, and based on one of my most terrible experiences as a reader, Isabel Allende's novel, this film is truly awful. The writing and direction is absolutely inept (if you don't believe me, see Doña Barbara, Kaplan's second film), the dubbing is atrocious, and the actors are miscast (and there's Banderas)and the overall film is a great piece of bad filmmaking. But at least it's not the worst film of all time, as House of the Spirits is, but it's still on my bottom 10. Oh, and the film is set in Chile, but in the scene were Jenny gets shot, you can see the "Obelisco", one of Buenos Aires' landmarks.
Review of Of Love and Shadows
