Word: alterio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled across the Austro-Italian border. Alvaro (Hector Alterio), his sexuality dampened by illness, his ego padded by wry self-awareness, endures, but only as accompanist to the boy when he sets forth on a soloist's career, still blithely unaware of the damage he has done...
...father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses in him, despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio), and it is she who lures him on into an affair that is chaste sexually, utterly enthralling emotionally. The switch-it is the child who entraps, the adult who is victimized-is full of delicious irony. But it is with dark deftness that Writer-Director Arminan has Goyita increase...
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