Martin (Hache)

As the previous reviews have stated, the movie is mainly about the relationship between a father and a son, but what will really blow you away is the dialogue, carried mostly by the Dante (Eusebio Poncella) character, it might be shocking that the sane person in this movie is the gay "libertine" drug user, but that's part of the (hidden?) charm and message Aristarain tries to transmit.Unfortunately though, non-spanish speaking viewers will have to cope with the usual translation problems that unfortunately take away at least 1/3 of the dialogue and half of the richness of the movie in part due to the fast pace the interactions have which I guess made them cut a lot of dialogue and resume some. But all in all, this is a great movie that you should not miss, performances are brilliant, specially Eusebio Poncella as Dante and Cecilia Roth as Alicia.

I initally found this difficult to get involved in but I hung in there and found it to be quite worthwhile to watch. It pulls no punches and shows people and their relationships with each other warts and all.We are all human and all fallible and everyone struggles with what they are unsure of. Made me think. I like that. If you give it a go, hang in there if you are tempted not to.

Used to own this movie in VHS and had to get it in DVD...one of my favorite movies of all times. Very intelligent dialogues and great acting from everyone in the crew.

I loved this movie and the acting , the young guy has some more years to learn, but the other three main characters were amazing!

Set in Buenos Aires and Madrid, this film has excellent character development. It is a very intelligent script about life and in particular about love, manhood, and a father and son's relationship.

A young man, somewhat lost, comes from Argentina to Madrid to be with his distanced, emotionally detached filmmaker father. But he ends up spending almost as much time with his dad's sexy, druggie younger mistress, (an incandescent performance by Cecilia Roth) and his dad's hedonistic, bi-sexual actor best friend.Entertaining and moving at times, the central character (the filmmaker-father) is so removed, and so hurtful it becomes hard to understand why the others continue to put up with him. It also gets a bit repetitive, as it becomes obvious that each time the father starts to open up, he'll just close down again. And it can feel very wordy.It reminded me of a pretty good Woody Allen drama. If it had more humor it might have made it even better. Still, I'm glad I saw it, and I find moments and performances stick with me.

As usual for movies in non-English, a reviewer feels this work context has been lost in translation, leaving a non-Spanish audience with her own clues and guesses, rather than a strong impression of a filmmaker's intent screened.Bowling for a social pressure, talented writer Martin had left native Argentine for Madrid, Spain, a centre of Spanish-speaking world as much as Hollywood of Los Angeles is a centre of the universe for artistic talents, of Anglo-Saxony linguistics definitely.However, an acclaimed author's deeply hidden problem is his sexuality, of which bi-elements are clear not only to ex-wife left behind with beloved son Martin Jr.-J. in Spanish "Hache"- and his soul (and more physical, as much explicitly hinted) mate - a same-gender-attracted time-life friend-performer surely.Grown up in such vogue environment, a nineteen year old son looks much more macho than even Latino teens do, attracted to drugs, alcohol and hard rock mostly as money is not an issue for him at all in then impoverished Argentina.This complex story is of b o t h comparing the older generation life options, "closet" and openly heralded hedonistic, a n d getting a truth about the Old Man, which to affect vital decisions by young Martin Jr. The Hache to step out from a shadow of father's wings-but will he in a reality?A cleaver, professional, well-performed modern drama.

Very wordy, almost feeling like a theater piece at times: a young man, somewhat lost, comes from Argentina to Madrid to be with his distanced, emotionally detached filmmaker father. But he ends up spending almost as much time with his dad's sexy, druggie younger mistress, (an incandescent performance by Cecilia Roth) and his dad's hedonistic, bi-sexual actor best friend.Entertaining and moving at times, the central character (the filmmaker-father) is so removed, and so hurtful it becomes hard to understand why the others continue to put up with him. It also gets a bit repetitive, as it becomes obvious that each time the father starts to open up, he'll just close down again.It reminded me of a pretty good Woody Allen drama. If it had more humor it might have made it even better. Still, I'm glad I saw it, and I find moments and performances stick with me. On second viewing I liked it a bit more, forgiving the theatricality, and enjoying getting to know these people.

10/10 movie. Well developed story and characters with incredibly rich/smart dialogue.The DVD is very granny even for DVD standards (4:3 ratio) and the obnoxious english subtitles are recorded with the movie (cannot be unselected).

Terapeútica, una película con personajes muy delineados que muestra no sólo la relación padres hijos sino otras relaciones igualmente importantes.

Bon produit et bon service de livraison.

Geniales interpretaciones de tres actorazos del copón bendito como son Federico Luppi, Eusebio Poncela y Cecilia Roth, Juan Diego Botto no me dice gran cosa pero tampoco lo hace mal y en esta peli está pasable, lo que pasa que los tres que he nombrado se salen de buenos. No hay película mala donde intervenga el Luppi que es el que más me gusta de todos. El Poncela-Dante genial también y la Roth perfecta, en esta peli ambientada en los ochenta a caballo entre Madrid y Buenos Aires. Si algo tienen estos actores de buenos que son, se podría resumir en dos palabras, natural y real, son tan naturales y creíbles actuando que te los estas creyendo de principio a fin y parece que todo es verdad, quizá en eso se base el arte de una buena interpretación, ser natural y creíble para el espectador y que salga del cine con una sonrisa en los labios. Una película modesta y sencilla pero con un gran trasfondo, filosófico y vivencial, tocando temas, un tanto peliagudos, que todos hemos vivido alguna vez, aunque sea por curiosidad. La compre muy barata a El Almacén de Noa, a si que encantado y disfrutando a tope de esta pequeña obra maestra del argentino Adolfo Aristarain, con una filmografía en su carrera más que decente e interesante, excepto Tiempo de Revancha que no me gusta mucho.

Hallo die CD war mir bekannt super ruhige Musik darum habe ich sie bestellt. Das einzige was nicht so gut war, war die lange Lieferzeit.