Hormigas en la Boca [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

See Larger Image	Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: Eduard Fernández, Ariadna Gil, Jorge Perugorría, José Luis Gómez, Samuel Claxton Directed By: Mariano Barroso Average Customer Rating:


Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 9781419822841 Format: AC-3 ISBN: 1419822845 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2006-02-28 Running Time: 92 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Spanish Civil War, Cuban revolution and fatal woman Comment: In Spain over 1950, Martin, a Republican ex- combatant and loser of Spanish Civil War and his bride Julia, now clandestine guerrilleros, commit a hold up in a bank. The assault results partially failed as Martin is caught by Franco's police, but before to be imprisoned, he gives the plunder consisting in money and jewels to Julia, which attain to escape. Eight years later, Martin has accomplished his term of imprisonment, but he hasn't had any notice of Julia during these time. Martin only knows Julia is in Havana, Cuba, so he takes a ship and debarks there. Havana, by 1958 is a city apparently full of life of the tropic, comparing with the dark ambiance of postwar Spain, but also a society near to another revolution leaded by Fidel Castro. In Havana, Martin at first doesn't find Julia so he demands for her to his uncle, a Spanish tailor established here. But the tailor says Julia died in an accident. There are effectively a grave with her name in the Havana cemetery, but Martin asks for the money and soon suspects all that is a bunch of lies. The atmosphere is explosive in Havana owing to the guerrillas of Castro still in the mountain but near to success. Martin, a hard man, is able developing and living clandestinely and knows how to survive in underworld. He gets some information from the young negro bellboy of his modest hotel and contacts with a mulatto taxi driver and ex boxer vaguely related with the rebels of Castro. So, Martin arrives to know a solitary widow whose husband was murdered by Freddy, a criminal Cuban senator, real state owner and builder and a dangerous man with contacts with the government police and some hard bodyguards working for him. He has the custom to menace his victims with an anonymous note: "Amanecerás con hormigas en la boca" ("You will see the dawn with ants in your mouth"). The truth is Julia has changed her name, is alive and married with Freddy. She explains to Martin she had too much fear to expect him in Spain after the hold up. There's a violent fight in the street with the bodyguards and Martin is beaten, but he escapes. But Freddy, who truly also loves Julia, proposes to Martin to pay him if he forgets her and returns to Spain for some money, 1000 pesos, but Martin wants all the money of the plunder -24000 pesos- and also loves Julia, a fatal woman at last. Martin and Freddy finish both in a bitter destiny while Julia escapes to the USA when Castro's revolution triumphs. Well achieved mixture of film noir, with love and politics touchs. More Reviews