Mal De Amores (Spanish) (Widescreen)

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From executive producer Benicio Del Toro comes a film about love of all kinds and 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. Directed by Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz, co directed by Mariem Perez Riera, and written by Jorge Gonzalez and Carlito Ruiz Ruiz, the film stars an ensemble of actors that include Luis Guzman, Teresa Hernandez, Luis Gonzaga and Silvia Brito. "Maldeamores" (Lovesickness) is a cinematic spectacle that establishes a new narrative structure through the interweaving of three stories of love - or lack thereof. Using dark humor as its main vehicle, the film tells the story of people and their quest for love, but who instead are confronted with madness, obsession and the fear of being alone. In the first story, a ten-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 he receives his first kiss and where Lourdes (his mother) discovers that his father has been cheating on her with her cousin Tati. In the second, a disturbed man takes a passenger bus hostage in the hope of forcing the driver he has long been obsessing over to marry him. When confronted by the police, chaos erupts and the situation soon turns into a media spectacle. In the third, a divorced, elderly couple has been living together for 28 years. Although legally separated, they stay together in the same house out of fear of being alone. One day the couple receives an unexpected visit from her long lost first husband. A love triangle ensues and both men begin to behave like teenagers in a pitched battle for the love of the old woman. These stories present the evolution of love, from the young to the old, and its often unfortunate stages, through heavy emotions to laugh-out-loud situations.