Number Rolled: 27
Movie Name/Year: A
Love in Times of Selfies (2014)
Tagline: None
Genre: Romance,
Comedy, Drama
Length: 116
minutes
Rating: NR
Production Companies:
None Listed
Producer: Victoria
Aizenstat, Claudio Corbelli, Diego Djeredjian, Jose Paquez, Luis Penna,
Fernando Sokolowicz
Director: Emilio Tamer,
Frederico Finkielstain
Writer: Emilio
Tamer
Actors: Carlos
Bala, Roberto Benemio, Graciela Borges, Luis Rubio, Manuel Wirzt, Martin Bossi,
Maria Zamarbide, Roberto Carnaghi, Beto Casella, Jorge Crivelli, Ari Paluch,
Marcelo Polino
Stunt Doubles: None
Blurb from Netflix:
Comedy teacher Lucas falls for student Guadalupe, a driven high-tech executive,
but their clashing tempers and ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
Selina’s Point of View:
I didn’t hate the love story here, but I found the film painful
to watch.
Almost everything felt entirely over or under acted. On top
of that, the film was roughly a half hour to forty-five minutes longer than it
should have been. I feel like I’ve been sitting here staring at my screen for a
life-time.
There wasn’t anything wrong with the characters, not really.
They weren’t shallow or lacking, I got what they were trying to portray and
why, but I just think it could have been done better.
For all intents and purposes, A Love in Times of Selfies was your basic bitch of romance
comedies. It didn’t matter that it was foreign. It didn’t matter that it was
almost as long as a fantasy film. It didn’t matter that the majority of the
script was roughly the biggest pile of bullshit. It was just a basic rom-com.
If it’d been English and cast with people like Hugh Grant (Extreme Measures, Sense and Sensibility,
Nine Months) and Julia Roberts (Notting
Hill, I Love Trouble, Pretty Woman), I’d have sworn we went back in time to
the 90s. Nothing would have felt out of place at all with it.
I did kind of like the ending. It left plenty of room for
debate and discussion.
Although it wasn’t all bad, I have very little interest in
seeing this movie again.
Cat’s Point of View:
I am a little conflicted about this movie. There were parts
that I adored, but unfortunately there were also parts that weren’t as
successful in connecting with me.
I think one of the biggest flaws here was the film’s length.
Netflix shows that it’s just shy of two hours long. It felt like at least twice
that.
The subtitles, at least, weren’t so much of an issue. I wish
that they would have translated the lyrics of some pieces from the soundtrack;
but overall, they were pretty good. The text was in a contrasting yellow and
was paced fairly well. There were a few hiccups now and again, but if anyone
fails to understand this movie – it won’t be because the text failed to
deliver.
IMDb labels this as a comedy. I found it somewhere between
rom-com and dramedy. It wasn’t quite either, in spite of focusing on a comedian
and how he and his peer group navigate love. All told, the movie was
unremarkable and the chances are very slim that I would ever watch it again.
Languages
Speech Available:
Spanish
Subtitles Available:
English, Spanish
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – None
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – None
Metascore - None
Metacritic User Score – None
IMDB Score – 5.2/10
Trust the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 2/5
Trust the Dice: Cat’s Rating
– 2.5/5
Trust-the-Dice’s
Parental Advisory Rating: R
Movie Trailer:
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