The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Mihaileanu's direction is uneven and it's tempting to speculate on what a filmmaker less intensely preoccupied with Jewish themes - such as Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron, who was initially slated to helm - might have made of it.
D
Daniel de Partearroyo
RTCinemanía (Spain)Sep 19, 2017
A literary game that drowns between subplays and emotional climaxes chained together while quoting Nicanor Parra. [Full review in Spanish]