Tres Minutos

Argentina 2007
produced by
Alberto Urtizberea for Vista Sur Films
directed by Diego Lublinsky
starring Nicolás Pauls, Julieta Zylberberg, Antonella Costa, Natalia Amado, Gonzalo Urtizberea, Claudio Martínez Belo, Horacio Peña, Franklin Caicedo, María José Gabin, Marcos Ferrante, Daniel Casablanca, Marcelo Xicarte, Horacio Roca, María Alche, Lidia Catalano, Nilda Raggi, Axel Pauls, Fernando Rossaroli, Diana Wells, Sergio Lublinsky, Alicia Corapi, Daniela Lieban, Alejandro Naviliat, Felipe Urtizberea
written by Diego Lublinsky, music by Mono Morello, Nicolás Posse

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Álex (Nicolás Pauls) and his camerateam have come to some caves to make a documentary about Fran (Gonzalo Urtizberea), the son of a famous actress (María Alche) who has gone missing during an expedition searching for his long-lost mother in these caves. To cope with the workload, Álex takes some drugs that speed things up a bit.

At the place Álex and his team are staying, he meets Ana (Natalia Amado), a 14-year-old he immediately takes a liking to, despite the age gap. The girl is afraid to fail at a piano audition if she's not fast enough, which could ruin all her plans for her future, so she at one instant steals Álex's drugs and takes most of them - then she disappears, without a trace, only Álex seems to get messages from her from God knows where. Eventually, he finds the rest of the drugs which she seems to urge him to take ... and all of a sudden, the world seems to stop around Aléx, though actually, his life and speed have sped up to such an extent that he perceives everyone else as frozen in time while the others can't see him due to his speed. In this weird world he meets Ana, who is by now a grown woman (and played by Juliety Zylberberg), having spent years sped up (only hours in the normal world). In this world that seems to be inhabited only by the two of them, Álex and Ana fall in love, but after they have sex for the first time, they're suddenly back to normal speed.

Somehow, Álex and Ana are seperated just before Ana's audition - which she fails because there was a 15 year age limit, and she's by now a grown woman ... but she is invited to join an audition for the actual symphonic orchestra later that day - if she's able to learn a certain repertory in that amount of time - and thus, she takes some more pills to manage the workload, and as a result does the audition as an old woman (Nilda Raggi), which is when Álex catches up with her ...

Álex is so in love with her that he goes to the source of the speeding pills, where he finds Fran (you know, the guy he has gone looking for at the beginning of the film), his mother who has aged before time (and is thus played by Diana Wells) - and is able to secure the last speeding pills for himself to become an old man (Axel Pauls) to enter a proper relationship with Ana.

This starts out rather interestingly, as a sort-of science fiction mystery with weird pills, caves and everything, but it gradually develops into a slightly dull lovestory that resembles a very cheesy episode of Twilight Zone more than anything else. Even then the film is not totally without its virtues and it does include some charming ideas, yet it's just nowhere near as original as the beginning would suggest.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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