I had the opportunity of watching this film in several Film Festivals. My opinion of Newcomer Tere Lopez-Tarin was no different from the general opinion. The audience is captivated once she's on screen. Her presence has an impact that I hadn't seen in a long time. She carries the character to the best in each face during the film, and accomplishes to maintain the rhythm of it, which has frequent flaws. It seems to me that, without the great, delighting performance of Lopez-Tarin, even the well known cast that includes the best Mexican and Spaniards Actors, keeps falling due to a lack of perception from former commercial cameraman, Eduardo Rossoff. I now consider myself a fan of Lopez-Tarin, whose intense, yet never melodramatic, performance got her to lead her next film, THE PEARL, based on Nobel Award Winner, John Steinbeck's novel, opposite Lukas Haas and maybe the last performance yet to be seen on screen, of Sir Richard Harris. And on top of a great performance, she's a fine, elegant, yet edgy girl. The latest I heard, is that she was leading her third American feature. Keep an eye on her. She has everything to be the next Julia Roberts.
