Product: Lovers [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 5.0
one of the greatest TRUE LOVE films ever...
This is a film that I've watched at least 2 dozen times now and never tire of...each frame, each moment is somehow always fresh and gorgeous, it has a sense and sensibility all its own.Most importantly, this film depicts the dark (and perhaps, more REAL) side of love: obsession, self-destructiveness, madness and ultimately, its transience and emptiness. The 3 leads: Jorge Sands, Maribel Verdu, and particularly the sublime Victoria Abril are spectacular. The script, acting, and direction is flawless.On the surface, it's a typical love-triangle story: handsome young man torn between his pure innocent and hopelessly dull/conventional fiance and her opposite: an intensely exciting, sexual, and audacious older woman who thoroughly cleans his clocks.The genius lies in the absence of any Hollywood kitsch---there is no happy ending, no miracles and miraculously fortuitous events or any other cop-outs to smooth everything out. It begins darkly and ends darkly, and we are treated to a beautiful ride in between, with plenty of eroticism but also cutting humor and social insight.It's too bad that the director, Vincente Arandas, has not since been able to come up with anything nearly as good as this film.