FRIDAY MAY 2nd
SYRACUSE CENTER 4 THE ARTS
12:00 MIDNIGHT
Maldeamores (Lovesickness)
Puerto Rico, 2007 | Runtime: 83 min.
Cast: Luis Guzman, Teresa Hernandez, Fernando Tarrazo, Norman Santiago, Edna Lee Figueroa
Directors: Carlos Ruíz Ruíz & Mariem Perez Riera
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Romance, Ensemble Film
Written by Carlos Ruíz Ruíz and Jorge Gonzales
From executive producer Benicio Del Toro comes a film about love at all ages in the backyards of Puerto Rico. A child's first kiss. A man who can't grasp rejection. An elderly love affair. Passion defeats reason again and again in this film about the eternal masochistic search for love.
Three stories: A 10-year-old boy named Ismaelito discovers love for the first time. This glorious sensation is set against the backdrop of Ismaelito's grandmother's funeral, where Ismaelito falls in love with his cousin and where Lourdes (Ismaelito's mother) discovers that her husband is unfaithful to her. The second story follows an obsessive lover that takes a passenger bus hostage in the hopes of forcing the driver he has long obsessed over to marry him. When confronted by the police chaos erupts and the situation soon turns into a media spectacle. In the third story, a divorced, elderly couple has been coexisting for 28 years. Although legally separated, they remain together in the same house due to their fears of being alone. One day the couple receives an unexpected visit from an elderly man. A love triangle ensues and both males begin to behave like youngsters in a pitched battle for the love of the old woman.
MOVIE TRAILER
SPONSORS:
Rums of Puerto Rico
Maya Releases
