Dulces engaños

Truly the greatest film that no one seems to know about (at least here in America) but certainly a profound one, as well as my personal favorite.

This is perhaps the most compassionate and artful debut role ever made for a young actress to shine. So, we should be thankful that the stars aligned for it to go to Catherine Spaak, perhaps the single most beautiful woman ever to grace the silver screen. (Here, of course, she's an adorable teenage girl, whose precocious mannerisms are sure to win audience's hearts.)

I wont spoil anything; give this a chance. Its a masterful expression of all the ways in which people hurt each other in the process of love, and are bitterly disappointed by life, all wrapped in a deceptively simple premise. All the best movies teach an important lesson of the craft, and I Dolci Inganni is the gold standard example of efficiency: how to say the most with the smallest runtime, pack the most subtext into a straightforward narrative and fully explore the depth of a most simplest theme.