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Dona Herlinda and Her Son

Dona Herlinda and Her Son

List Price: $19.95
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good film - poor dvd
Review: This strange and unconventional film is refreshing in its honesty. It is the story of a controlling mother who makes life happy for everyone by moving in her gay son's lover to live with them yet also arranging a heterosexual marriage for him so that she can have grandchildren! The refreshing aspect of the film is that the situations are presented naturally and without pretext. Even the gay sex scenes are playfully done (although not explicit), something you would rarely see in an American film. It is a funny and entertaining film, well acted and directed, and an interesting depiction of South American culture and home life.

Now for the bad news - the dvd is poorly presented. It's obvious that no digital enhancement was done. It resembles an old tv episode with dark shadows, bleeding colors and the picture is extremely soft. It is shown in full screen format (it was probably filmed that way, although I can't be sure). But worst of all, the sub-titles are atrocious! They appear only as the characters are speaking and, as the Spanish language is spoken fast, there are many instances when the text appears so ridiculously quick that you don't have time to read it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Movie good - I have the LD
Review: When is Amazon going to update the title to "Dona" instead of "Doqa"?

The movie on lazer disc is fun while the acting may at times be a little stilted, especially the actress playing Dona Herlinda. I haven't seen the DVD version and probably won't buy it until my lazer disc player dies. Perhaps by then the DVD version will be cleaned up.


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