Desamores

  • Desamores
Genre : Crime
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2004
Format : Feature
Running time : 107 (in minutes)

There has been a grave massacre within a highly successful insurance company in Puerto Rico. The owners, a married couple, have been slaughtered along with their employees. While the police are investigating, a private investigator, Isabelo, is hired. The investigation takes place in an underworld of frayed relationships and foul connections. It is a detective story that revolves around unforeseen secrets dealing in the occult and certain passions that only appear to spawn loathing.

Storyline written by Roberto I Albandoz (Imdb)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0430011/


Puerto Rico, 2004

With:
Modesto Lacen, Yamaris Latorre, Braulio Castillo Jr., Ernesto Concepcion, Jackeline Duprey, Sandra Teres, Axel Anderson, Yezmin Luzzed, Raul Carbonel Jr.

Directed by Edmundo H. Rodriguez.

Screenplay: Gilberto A. Rodriguez,
from the novel by Wilfredo Mattos-Cintron.
Camera (color, 24P DV): Demetrio Fernandez Manzano
Editor: Augustin Rexach Martin
Music: Carlos Rafael Camunas
Costumes, Gloria Saez
Sound, Walter Santaliz.

CAST
Patricia Alonso... Woman at Cafeteria
Axel Anderson... Casimiro Leyva
Suzette Bacó... Amanda
Francisco Capó
Raúl Carbonell (as Raúl Carbonell hijo)... Valdo Frías
Myrna Casas...
Braulio Castillo hijo... Darío Rosales
Jorge Castro... David Iñesta
Ernesto Concepción (as Ernesto Javier Concepción)... Omar Pereyó
Edna de Jesus...
Jacqueline Duprey... Lourdes Robledo
Jonathan Dwayne... Ismael Berrondo
Victoria Espinosa... Abuela (Grand mother)
Carola García... Elvia
Darisabel Isales... Mercedes

Produced by Luis H. Collazo.

Production Company: Propaganda

Running time: 107 MIN.

A Puerto Rico Film Commission, Tu Universo Television, Propaganda production.


Premiere at African Diaspora Film Festival, Dec. 2, 2005.


"Spiffy Puerto Rican noir with a black private eye as hero, based on the novel "Desamores" by political writer Wilfredo Mattos-Cintron, brings some nice ironic class tensions back into the genre. The story hovers over the uglier aspects of the beautiful people as the cynical detective walks a thin line between a corrupt plutocracy and a psychopathic criminal underclass on the streets of San Juan. " - Variety


Country: Puerto Rico
Language: Spanish
Filming Locations: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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