Caramelo M This story talks about the social issue, it's kinda the Collective Memory in Spain and some relative countries. The scene in Barcelona is gloomy, but the main characters are live with hope, the positive attitude is part of Latin people own.this film doesn't deep narrate why Elisa leave her mum(it could means she is not so fancy 'family' but more interested in being with man), and seems she doesn't really care about her sons, even tho she always call back to talk with them, but when they first separated, Elisa and her sons didn't have strong emotion.This film seems wanna give audience a happy and hopefully ending, so that arrange the police man to make this film more romance, and Elisa seems accept love easily, she probably wants love more than family, all the relation is not so touchable, so I give 6 out of 10.

Edgar Soberon Torchia I had not seen a film as moronic as this in a long time. It plays with prostitution as if it were a "to be or not to be a virgin" comedy starring Doris Day, but even in her vehicles Doris was not as dumb as the main character in this motion picture. Elisa is a vulgar and amoral young woman, a cruel daughter and a terrible mother to two little boys, who leaves the paternal home, breaks up with her boss and lover, quits her job and enters the prostitution world as first choice, to raise money for opening a beauty salon with Lulú, her empty headed partner who introduces her to Madame Jacqueline's brothel. She ends up in Barcelona (Spanish locations, actors or characters are prerequisites in most co-productions done with Spain) with a mafioso lover and Lulú, gets involved in quarrels with Brazilian transvestites that lead to murder, and dealings with policemen. Not even then the film shows a bit of concern for the real facts it is based on, but rather goes on accumulating clichés, that turn Elisa into "Our Lady of the Whores". Bad acting by both lead male actors (Argentinean Silvestre, and Catalan Josep Linuesa) does not help this mess, ironically directed by a woman. Raise a few points if you will for fine technical aspects that can be bought by moneys from so many co-producers (Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and Belgium).

ArrivederciBaby Despite an excellent lead performance by Mariana Santángelo, the story told in this film deserved a more serious approach than it's given here. Such artificial cliches as the "doomed best friend" and the "handsome, understanding cop" seem out of place amid the elements of what should be an inherently dark and dramatic story.

A Verdade This Uruguayan film, one of the most popular films shown at the recent São Paulo Film Festival after breaking box office records at home, is a funny and intelligent film.It addresses an important ongoing, unresolved pan-Latin American issue which, inexplicably, has not been depicted as it deserves to be, in either Spanish or Latin America cinema. That is, up to now.Since the 1980s, unemployed, impoverished Latin American women have been lured to Spain, somewhat knowingly or unknowingly, to support their families at home through prostitution. However, once in Spain, these women´s passports and freedom are taken away. They become sex slaves, often with no way out, with no pay, and no one to turn to for help.This film, mixes comedy, drama, social commentary, tragedy, and the sense of hope, all to great effect. If it plays at a film festival near you, as it may soon, I would definitely recommend this unusual, funny, and touching film.