Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

drsixthsense I was reading through other reviews and I was surprised that people didn't get the point of this story. Previous movies of Medem I did like. But these were not so deep, so intense. I think the reason is that movie dedicated to his sister. And knowing that her paintings were used in this movie just gives even more feelings about that film. I really loved that and advising to all my friends who like other movies than Transformers. Perfect acting, perfect story-line, perfect idea behind, perfect soundtrack. Whole idea about being mother of good human - so powerful and great. In the end I was crying with tears of happiness. I was so happy that someone could make such a movie. Room in Rome was not such deep but not as simple as Lucy and Lovers. My applause to Julio Medem.

ben-in-france Visually, the movie is beautiful. Wonderful landscapes and light throughout, as always with Medem.In terms of the story, it's not very clear, a bit too mental to make sense. I enjoyed it until she got to New York and Said just re-appears like that, and what is that about the Irak war?? Suddenly, the story turned a bit too 'real' to make sense.Good acting all round, though some characters are undeveloped: Charlotte Rampling's, the cute hypnotist etc...Some strikingly beautiful moments though - Ana's recollection of dying in the desert (quite violent though), the animations, Ana dancing with her father etc...

johno-21 I saw this last month at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The premise of this film was done before back in 1968 in the film Candy. You take a lovely nymph-like girl with a lot of hair and a beautiful body and build a series of disjointed, ridiculous sketch-like stories around her with the help of a big name actor or two and pretend it's a comedy. This film does the same except it pretends to be a drama. The films title character Ana (Manuela Vellés) is a gifted young artist living with her father Klaus (Matthias Habich) in a cave near Ibiza, Spain. Yes, they live in a cave but it's quite nice and richly appointed for a cave dwelling. Newcomer Vellés almost didn't have the role as it was originally attached to actress María Valverde who wisely bowed out and you can only imagine if it was her refusal to do a certain scene in this film. One day a wealthy art patron from France named Justine (veteran international talent Charlotte Rampling) discovers the artistic potential in Ana and wants to cultivate her talent by setting her up in her exclusive art colony she runs in Madrid. Ana meets Linda (Bebe Rebulleto) who becomes her best friend and Said (Nicolas Cazalé) who becomes her boyfriend. Ana discovers the doors to past lives through regressive hypnotism by an young American hypnotist named Michael (Asier Newman). The movie has you hooked for a while and you wonder where it's going to go but once she heads for New York it rapidly falls apart as a film trying to hard to be an art film with a political and social message. The film looks great with art direction by Montse Sanz and cinematography by Mario Montero and direction from the talented and celebrated, international film festival award winning Julio Medem. The film is dedicated to Medem's sister Ana Medem whose actual artwork are featured through the film. Her Picassoesque style painting were to be shown at an exhibit in Valencia when on her way there she was tragically killed in a car accident. I hate to be critical of a film dedicated to someone who represents such a personal loss to it's director but the story written by director Medem is so bad that I can't help it. Watching this film you realize that this guy knows how to make a film but you wonder why he didn't make one this time. It features some nudity and some prolonged unnecessary violence and I would give this a 5.5 out of 10 and not recommend it to a general audience.

doug-697 An art student undergoes hypnosis to unlock repressed memories of past lives and discovers she has a unique place in human history.Early in the movie I was just thinking it was a silly movie with superficial pseudo-hip observations about sex and life. As the movie continued I began the think that perhaps the movie was made with the intended audience being adolescent girls. For example, the guy who puts Ana under hypnosis to bring out her repressed memories is clearly too young to be taken seriously and the way the women talk about sex would not be considered sophisticated by most adult women, but in both cases might be interesting to 13 year olds. I was thinking that if the movie's target audience was young girls then based upon that it wasn't a bad movie. However as the movie continued and began to makes it's political views more explicit I concluded it had actually been made by an adolescent girl. It's not the politics or the moral point of view that's silly, it's the fact that the director obviously thinks he's telling us something we don't know (Ex: men are responsible for all the wars in history! Hmmm...what a shocking new idea!)Oddly enough, the final climactic scene, which is utterly naive and blatantly anti-American actually saves the movie. The silliness of everything that goes on before doesn't prepare you for as brutal a political statement as could ever be made. I don't agree with the statement (to say the least, by the way) but I have to admire the courage to put in on film. However, the movie is incredibly silly and if you're a moderately well-read person, it probably won't have much to offer.