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The Dark Side of the Heart (2019) · The Dark Side

Name: The Dark Side of the Heart
Director: Eliseo Subiela, Marcelo Rembado
Genre: Friends, Surrealism
Released: 2019
Duration: 127 min
Cast: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Mónica Galán

Original title: The Dark Side

2019 · Eliseo Subiela, Marcelo Rembado · 127 min · Italia · Edited by 1

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Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

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The Dark Side of the Heart

Spanish: El Lado Oscuro del Corazón
Chinese: 心灵的阴影
Korean: 마음의 심연

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The Dark Side of the Heart (2019) · The Dark Side

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