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The story of an Argentine family entangled in a web of lies, all of which relate to the fabricated adventures of a lost son who sends gifts from foreign lands. What begins as a liberating game becomes a trap from which none in the...
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"An Argentinian family in the fifties becomes sad when Pablo, the musician, moves to Paris to improve his skills. After a while, the mother cannot understand why he does not write a letter. The brother and sister start writing letters pretending to be Pablo. As times goes by, the fake Pablo sends presents and news about his success but never returns. Based on a Julio Cortazar story, the viewer wants the movie to finish to uncover what happened. But that is not the most important. The web of lies makes the lives of everything depressing, even Pablo's fiancée who could not understand why ..."
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The actress Lydia Lamaison, who plays The Grandmother en several flashbacks of the film, plays The Mother in Circe (1964), also based on a short story by Julio Cortázar.
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The story of an Argentine family entangled in a web of lies, all of which relate to the fabricated adventures of a lost son who sends gifts from foreign lands. What begins as a liberating game becomes a trap from which none in the...