Let's get your review verified. Fandango AMCTheatres. More Info. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly.
This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until her eyes ran completely dry.
Far from seeing clearly, the present and the future become mixed up in darkness. She begins looking for his father who has become a transvestite. Drama, Comedy. Nov 3, Cecilia Roth Manuela. Marisa Paredes Huma Rojo. Antonia San Juan Agrado. Michel Ruben Associate Producer. Alberto Iglesias Original Music. Affonso Beato Cinematographer. Bina Daigeler Costume Designer. Jean-Jacques Puchu Hair Stylist. Tino Pont Production Manager. View All Critic Reviews See Movies in Theaters.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Argentine Manuela Echevarria, an organ transplant coordinator at a Madrid hospital, ran off from her husband in Barcelona eighteen years ago upon learning that she was pregnant, their son, Esteban, who she has never told about his father despite his curiosity, and her husband who didn't know about the pregnancy when she ran off.
An event coinciding with Esteban, an aspiring writer, turning seventeen leads to Manuela feeling the need to return to Barcelona to look for her husband. There, she ends up further acting as the maternal figure for people in need. One is a young nun named Sister Rosa, who she meets through her old friend, a transvestite prostitute who has assumed the name Agrado in her agreeable nature.
Rosa has a strained relationship with her own conservative mother, as she is consumed with caring for her ill husband, who suffers from Alzheimer's. The other is actress Huma Rojo, currently appearing as Blanche Dubois in a stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire, which has long been a touchstone for Manuela in productions of it coinciding with milestone moments in her life, this production no different. Huma is in a troubled codependent relationship with her younger "Stella Kowalski" costar Nina Cruz, a closet junkie, hence Huma's emotional need for support.
By the end of her stay in Barcelona, Manuela will have another non-relative for who she will feel the need to act as a mother figure. And part of every man is a woman.
English trailer. Rated R for sexuality including strong sexual dialogue, language and some drug content. Did you know Edit. Trivia Agrado's monologue was based on a real life event. When the electronic system of an Argentinian theater failed, the director suspended the show. Actress Lola Membrives decided to give the news to the audience and make them an offer: if they'd stay, they could listen to the narration of her life.
Quotes Agrado : Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. Peter Stormare and Joel Grey also star in this trailblazing concoction that will make you cry at the same time it makes your heart sing. Director :. Lars von Trier. Producer :. Critics Consensus: Dancer in Dark can be grim, dull, and difficult to watch, but even so, it has a powerful and moving performance from Bjork and is something quite new and visionary. Previous The Spool.
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So, I understand her point of view now when I am a little older and wiser. She also mentioned that she is somebody who doesn't like to read scripts and that she always tells you to give her the scripts only if you are doing the film. So, sometimes when you get a script and are confused whether you should do it or not, how do you move ahead with it? It's a movie-based process. If I read the script and feel that I would like to watch it then I would like to be a part of that film.
Sometimes if I like something but if the other prerequisites don't fit the bill for example; maybe the production company, the budget, the director or other things, that's when I give the script to my mother to read so that she can advise me on whether I should still go after the film and make it happen even if the other things are not hundred per cent. Recently when I and Abhishek Banerjee were discussing on how he zeroes down his scripts, he told me that for him, it's all about the team.
He said that whenever someone approaches him with a script, the first thing he asks them is 'Who is the director?
Do you follow a similar route? We spend hours on sets on a daily basis which means we spend more than half of our day with a bunch of strangers to make the film that we want and if you don't get along with those people then we will not be really happy at the end of the day. Kaam kitna bhi accha nikal raha ho par agar aap khush nahin ho toh what's the point of everything?
So, I think what Abhishek said is very important. It's important to surround yourself with good people and enjoy the journey. For example, if I have not seen someone's film then I will make the effort of doing my research like Vivek Soni director of Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a first-time director but he is amazing. He has been an associate on Abhishek Chaubey's films.
I saw Vivek's short films and enjoyed the moments in them and the story-telling. So, it was easy for me to decide on this film because he was so passionate and clear in his vision. Ever since you and your mother appeared together on the Weekend Ka Vaar episode of Salman Khan's Bigg Boss 15 , everyone is eagerly waiting to see you both in a film. Your mom said that you two will surely do a film together some day but it has to be for the right reason.
Now whenever that happens, do you think there would be a certain amount of pressure on you because you are sharing screen space with her? Will the dynamics change? The pressure will be for me to work with my mother but not for me to work with Bhagyashree, the actress.
You know how it is, like you can perform and do all those things but your mom is working with you, you get very nervous because at the end of the day, I want her to be proud of me. So, what she is seeing for me is extremely important. The outside pressure that people might have expectations doesn't trouble me at all because that's something I can say no to easily.
She never saw my stage plays or university films. But then, you got to jump into it. You can't take all these things to your heart. Give your best and enjoy yourself.
That's what you are here for. Lastly in retrospect when you look back at the day when you stepped into the film industry, how do you see your evolution both as an actor and a person till now? I believe that I have become more understanding, patient of the world that we live in.
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