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A lonely man in his fifties finds once again love in the arms of a young woman.

Masterpiece novel, really really bad movie.

Poor adaptation goes as a really bad movie

Based on La tregua by Mario Bennedetti, this movie is a good example of how bad an adaption of a plot from a novel can be. Well this film has a very bad adaptation from the novel, bad plot, bad acting, bad locations, bad film-making, bad photography. It&#39;s like a lot of short scenes of a minute or less, lot of the scenes even lack of dialogue, there are many scenes that can be cut out without affecting the movie...ah is a shame a so good novel can be put on the screen so badly. Please don&#39;t waste your money watching this movie, with the same money you can better buy the book. The book is a great masterpiece. I give the movie a 0 in the range from 0 to 10, I cant understand why La tregua is called a movie, that cant be a movie.

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La tregua

With the plot from a short novel with the same name written by Mario Benedetti, this movie, La tregua (The truce), doesn&#39;t pays homage in any way to the great story conceived by the author born in Uruguay. This results only in my acknowledge that it never ceases to amaze me how bad our motion pictures can be, so this is the latest example. The novel has a very strong backbone, whose narrative force lays on it&#39;s powerful as well as sad and dark storyline; it is about an old widower tired of his vacuous live, on the brink of retirement, and with grown up kids. All this is shown to us because he keeps track of his life and feelings in a diary. Then one day a new coworker comes along. She´s Laura Avellaneda, a pretty young girl who restarts the flame of the long time dead passion in the man, and falls for her. Then the girl starts an affair with him, and from this point his life has a sudden change; to tell you more it would be a spoiler, but only in the interest for reading the book, not for watching this movie. 
The quality on both pieces goes equally in the opposite directions; while the book goes up for being recognized as one of the few masterpieces of Benedetti&#39;s prolific work, the movie goes down without a parachute. This film is flattest than flat, with no heart, and many bad acting jobs (mainly by soap operas performers); also, there are the wrong chosen scenarios (many times it looks like an advertisement about the joy of visiting Veracruz), and the addition of non dramatic subplots that, instead of giving new and more interesting ramifications on the story, adds lots of weight in terms of running time that makes watching this even more boring and slow, ergo painful. The main problem with this film is it&#39;s lack of soul and the whole atmosphere that comes with it: you can sense an effortless job in all the actors (or overplayed, which is worst). It&#39;s really sad to witness how a great story on paper sinks like this in a movie, just by being adapted with no real intention nor respect. Don&#39;t waste your time with it, just like our mexican producers like to do so with their money. Few mexican movies has been so awful, and I&#39;ve seen plenty. That&#39;s why I rate it 1 out of 10

Is an absolutely amazing drama about how life can be sometimes hard. And what is the role of your family in those hard situations. It brings you to you father&#39;s time, and gives you a plentiful summary about how did the see things and live them in a hard-working way of life. This story talks about the boring life that a 50 years old adult, without any kind of goal in his life, but work. And how a pretty lady shows up in his life, and starts an creamy romance, that reveals the true essence of our parents love. The evolution of the protagonist is amazing from an bored and just chilled out life to active and back again to passive way of life, because of his &quot;wife&quot; death. It describes the 50ths where a new bunch of innovation waves came up to the Spanish (in this film Argentina&#39;s) lifestyle. The family has inner problems such as a gay son, that at first he could&#39;t realized it.

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Masterpiece novel, really really bad movie.

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