Demasiado Amor

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Summary: Lessons in Love
Review: Director Ernsto Rimoch has created in DEMASIADO AMOR not only a tender story about two sisters and their dreams of moving from Mexico City to Spain to buy a house that will be a Boarding Home for their future income. Beatriz (Karina Gidi) is the less attractive of the two sisters and the more responsible one and is elected to stay in Mexico City until the Spanish house is located and bought by Laura (Ana Karina Guevara). Beatriz sees herself as unattractive and it is only after her neighborhood flower vendor (Luisa Huertes) that she feels beautiful and can begin to look at men! Here begins the change! Beatriz has a chance encounter with a handsome man, Carlos (Ari Telch) in her local cafe and has a whirlwind love affair with him before he disappears. Demands for money from Spain and from her landlord force Beatriz to do extra work and that need for money also results in other encounters with men with whom she has brief affairs (Martin Altomaro, Daniel Martinez, Paul Mendez, etc). She is wined and dined and adored but still longs for her first love Carlos. Meanwhile her sister Laura falls in love in Spain, marries and has two girls, and asks Beatriz to move to Spain. But Beatriz' encounters and experiences in Mexico City override her desire to leave her beloved Mexico. There are twists and turns that bring the story to a close, but disclosing them would be unfair. This is beautifully photographed, sensual, dreamy little film that merits your attention. In Spanish with English subtitles.