Opposing impulses - sweet and sinister - sometimes threaten to break the film apart, but Garcia's performance always pulls the two halves back together.

It all comes down to a mournful gaze, and the simmering rage visible just beneath it.

One of those films where your satisfaction will be measured in terms of whether you found its hero fully realized as a character.

A film that, with a naturalistic style, has noble intentions to dialogue with topics such as childhood, frustration and loneliness, but at times it becomes tepid and not very touching. [Full reveiw in Spanish]