A film nice to see for actors. It is the basic conclusion .
Writer/Director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, The Girl of Your Dreams, The Artist and the Model) revives the storyline and characters of The Girl of Your Dreams and places the tale (and stars from the original) in a slovenly montage of Span in the time of Franco. It desperately needs an editor.
A second rate flick, made unpalatable by Trueba's childish political obsessions. Not that he is unique in such proclivities.
(Flash Review)Taking place in Spain in the 1950s, film star Macarena Granada is cast as the queen of Spain to shoot a blockbuster movie in her homeland. There were some peripheral stories about the tumultuous state of Spain's government as well as laughably portrayed love story.
24 October 2017. This is a movie that doesn't really offer up a distinct movie genre but sort of a blurry drama that the movie trailers promoted as a distinctive period comedy.
I don't think the ratings of this film is fair to the movie. I expected a bad bad movie, but that wasn't what I watched.
25% of the viewers rated this 1. that sure is suspicious.
Loved the movie, much better than the first part (La Niña de tus Ojos). A perfect representation of Spaniards characters and personality, through one of the toughest periods of Spain's history, but adding some humour to support with the story line.
Sequel to "La Niña De Tus Ojos", which brings together the entire cast of the previous film, retaking the story of the characters about 20 years after what happened in the previous film, almost the same time that both films have been released between them.Trueba pays tribute to the Spanish cinema of the 50s, returning to the character of Macarena Granada (played again by a wonderful Penelope Cruz) that after what happened in the previous film becomes a star in Hollywood and returns to Spain to star in a Biopic of Queen Isabella the Catholic ...
