Capsule Reviews of AFI Film Festival
Following are capsule reviews of a selection of the screenings today and Sunday at the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Cenutry Plaza Cinemas.
SUNDAY
‘I’m the One You’re Looking For’
Spain, 1988, 90 minutes 4:45 p.m.
A beautiful model falls in love with her biker rapist and pursues him obsessively through the dangerous, lower-class dives of Barcelona, taking as her accomplices an embittered lady taxi driver and a gentle voyeur-transvestite artiste. That’s the explosive subject of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez-scripted fable. But it’s the weakest of the “Dangerous Love” series. Director Jaime Chavarri has a rudimentary, flat style; he can’t work up the whiff of danger or eroticism, so the script’s deliberate provocations, embedded in an emotionless drift, seem simply shocking or shallow.
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