The Dark Side of the Heart

Eliseo Subiela·127 min

Oliverio is a poet wandering Buenos Aires and Montevideo, declaiming verse and refusing any lover who cannot literally fly. Subiela plays the metaphor straight: transcendence in love is a physical event here, not a figure of speech. Death stalks him the whole way, as a woman he keeps charming out of taking him.

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