"Infieles" ("Infidels") is a weird mess that tries a little hard to show the duality between fiction and reality, what a filmmaker lived and
how he's gonna present his alleged true story to audiences in a fictional relatable manner, and the many changes his artistic creation must go through.
It's a crazed mix of drama, comedy and romance, and the sex appeal from the poster is just for show. It's a little enjoyable but for the most part it's
a very empty and dull presentation of nearly everything.
A filmmaker (Dairo Piñeres) presents, on a social media, the messy relationship of two couples and their infidelities, and he's actually one
of the person involved, represented through (his words) a more handsome alter ego (Gonzalo Guerrero). The man, Sebastian, is an aspiring filmmaker trying
to make his movies but he's turned down by an important producer (William Goite) whose wife Maria (Vanesa Mendoza) is having an affair with Sebastian.
The latter, by his turn, has a girlfriend (Anaís Maucó), and like Maria she's trying to be an actress.
A great deal of Maria and Sebastian relationship is shown through instant messages, and the gimmick was interestingly shown as if they're
addressing their love exchanges to the audience rather than showing letters on the screen over and over (it happens a little). Other than that, it all
goes on a predictable mode of lovers who can't be together, suspicious partners will get close to find out about what they're doing, etc. The narrator,
in between moments, plays some tricks on us and on those characters as he changes his mind while developing his script - a fun moment comes when the
couple imagine ways to recreate the diner robbery from "Pulp Fiction" through a marriage proposal that goes wrong, or having a more intimate moment
in front of everybody, which also goes hilariously wrong.
The cast is charming and all, but the mixture of countless ideas and elements simply doesn't work, doesn't have much appeal and neither has an
interesting view on relationships, infidelity and the complications of love and romance in the digital era - as the cheating spouses keep on arranging
schedules and excuses to distract their partners (some moments were funny). As for the screenwriting cause and the complexities of a writing process, the idea didn't work that good, it gets confusing at parts. Gladly, it's just an hour long and little harm was done. 5/10.
