The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:o English (subtitles) o Spanish (subtitles) o English (Dolby Digital 5.1) o Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1) Synopsis:Based on the novel by Luis Sepulveda, this drama stars Richard Dreyfuss as Antonio Bolivar, an elderly man who lives in a small village along the Amazon River. Many years ago, Boliver and his young wife came to the village as part of an effort to colonize the area; the couple was welcomed by Nushino (Victor Bottenbley), leader of the native tribes, but after a fever took the life of his spouse and attacks by fortune seekers caused the natives to turn their backs on the white settlers, Bolivar has been virtually alone, with only one close friend in the village, an aging dentist named Rubicondo (Hugo Weaving). Bolivar passes his time by reading florid romance novels passed along to him by Josefina (Cathy Tyson), Rubicondo's mistress who works as an aide for the village's mayor, Luis Agalla (Timothy Spall). Agalla, not an especially scrupulous man, has been selling illegal hunting permits to visitors hunting big game, and one of his customers made the mistake of killing and skinning a pack of jaguar cubs; the mother of the cats found the hunter, and tore him to shreds. Now likely to attack any human she sees, the mother jaguar is roaming the jungle near the village and must be found before she can kill again, and Bolivar steps forward to help with the dangerous assignment of finding and capturing the vicious cat. Special Features:o Behind the scenes footageo Commentaryo Deleted Sceneso Interactive Menuo Photo Galleryo Scene Access Product Description

Really, really good.

The movie is a real 5 star item. Dreyfus plays the main character in true fashion and does the book (which is a 10 star item), a real honor with his performance of Antonio Jose Bolivar Proaño ( The old man). The real sad part is that the author is Chilean, El Idilio, town where the story takes palce is somewhere between Peru ,Bolivia and Brasil's Amazonean region and the movie, is released and available in region 2 format? Spain? Come on.., Dreyfus is american (REGION 1). The author is from South America and the story take place in South America (REGION 4) and it is not available in either region's format? Good marketing focus! I only hope they will sometime make it avilable to the public this side of the world. Everyone who cares about the environment, the future of our world, sustained by the world's green areas and tropical forests will benfit from the message put forward by the book and projected in the movie. December 13, 2006

a rarity

An unexamined life is not worth living. why one watches films, just brilliant November 27, 2006

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