Amar Te Duele (2002)

Teenagers Renata (Martha Higareda) and Ulises (Luis Fernando Pena) search for love and freedom amidst class divides prejudice peer pressure and urban violence in this moving Romeo and Juliet story set in the shopping malls working class barrios and wealthy neighborhoods of Mexico City.System Requirements:Running Time: 104 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012236205739 Manufacturer No: 20574 Product Description

Mexico is not donkeys and sombreros.... this movie shows you another side.

I saw this movie while staying in Mexico and it is a stunning, eye-opening look into the class differences in Mexico City. Most American (United States) looks into Mexico involve dusty border towns and sombrero-laiden stereotypes. This shows you another side of Mexico: class differences in one of the largest cities on earth. After 6 weeks in Mexico, much of it in Mexico City, I have a new view of life and of the world.

This movie is worth a watch. If you're not fluent in Spanish (I speak it, but I'm not fluent), you will want to use the subtitles, because it's full of slang and cussing in Spanish that would be impossible for a school-educated Spanish-speaker to get a grip of on the first watch. September 18, 2008

Very unforgetable!

This movie is a great adaptation. It has everything the classic romeo&Juliet story has- drama and tragedy! lol. The characters wer believable and the movie made you want them to end up together in the end. But of course, not possible. September 14, 2008

Awesome

I Really luv the Movie it is an awesome Romeo & Juliet luv story with a verry sad ending. Great!!! October 11, 2007

The best latin film in the last years!!!!

I was very pleased with this film, latin originated films have been improving in all spects,
it is also a beautiful story and they made an exellent job in casting for every character.

This film makes you feel involved in the story.

This is a beautiful film that I will always remember and I'm thankfull that Amazon helped me find
this movie here in the U.S. because I coudn't find it anywhere in the U.S.

P.S. please provide more latin films. Thank you. May 8, 2007

Refreshingly familiar but also new

I enjoyed this. It's a reminder of how classic the premise of Romeo and Juliet really is, but it's always nice to see the story cast in new and innovative ways. This film does that. Martha Higareda is lovely as Renata, and in general Fernando Sariñana does a great job of getting the most out of his young actors. For American viewers this will also have the refreshing complexity of recent Mexican film in that it shows the class frictions and prejudices.

I did think the ending played out a little to conveniently tragic. It's not exactly as the original, of course. That ending might have been too elaborate to get into this story realistically. Instead the director goes for a gritty, believable sort of realism. March 31, 2007

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