Postales de Leningrado

Name: Postales de Leningrado
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-09-07
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Laureano Olivarez, Greisy Mena, William Cifuentes

2007
1h 25m

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6.5/10

299

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Drama

A young woman gives birth to a daughter while living in secrecy. The daughter and her cousin Teo cope with the fear and violence of their parents' struggle. They also wait for postcards from... Read allA young woman gives birth to a daughter while living in secrecy. The daughter and her cousin Teo cope with the fear and violence of their parents' struggle. They also wait for postcards from Leningrad, a place they feel is a safe haven.A young woman gives birth to a daughter while living in secrecy. The daughter and her cousin Teo cope with the fear and violence of their parents' struggle. They also wait for postcards from Leningrad, a place they feel is a safe haven.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

299

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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- 6 wins & 4 nominations

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4/10

Overly complicated narrative undermines story of guerrilla fighters.

This film has some creative energy, but the story of the young revolutionaries is told in an unnecessarily complicated way and I could never figure out what the director's point of view is. Is she satirizing the commitment of the young people who go to the mountains to bring down the government? If so, why does she quote the authentic rural people who remember the revolutionaries with affection?

I appreciate the effort to put the struggle for justice in context of a specific family, but it was very difficult to figure out who was who. The kids and their animated fantasies were so distracting, and I don't know what was the point of the film within a film shot by a "gringo".

Need I mention that most of the acting was terrible? I lived in Venezuela for two years and I recognize the tele-novela style. The grandmother especially bothered me, but the hero, Teo, was also very bad.