To go and say that this movie was a love story is being ethereal to the most delicate degree. This movie was many things as it unfolds with a rich sense of captivity. Taking the viewer on a ride that only a Puerto Rican can plot out (The cast is enriched with Puerto Ricans). It took a few deep breaths to fully digest the amount of dissonant dialogue, by all means it was bearable but at times it was shocking. No one can write this type of storytelling. Obviously Carlito Ruiz Ruiz got it right with precision. The film explores love on it's most obverse levels, by exploring love throughout age, rage, immense tragedy, psychosis, and of course humor. These different palettes create an exuberant amount of depth, body, and twisted sense of the word. It is definitely a family oriented film with so many references to Puerto Rican culture that you just want to throw some 'chanclas' on and hit the 'playa'. The themes of ancestry are doused with gasoline and set ablaze with trepidation. You feel what it's like to a part of the inner circle. The problematic circle is not that love is reciprocal but that the action exists and we cannot coexist if that understanding is discernible. A true gem amongst Latin gems. I hold this film in high accord with Innaritu's masterpieces.

This film is a good example of how through media manipulation you can sell a film that is no more than a very unfunny TV sitcom. In Puerto Rico the daily newspaper with the widest circulation has continuously written about the marvels of this film, almost silencing all others. Coincidentally the newspaper with the second largest circulation belongs to the same owners. The weekly CLARIDAD is the only newspaper on the island that has analyzed the film's form and content, and pointed out all its flaws, clichés, and bad writing.Just because a film makes a portion of the audience laugh with easy and obvious jokes, and because one can recognize actors and scenery, does not make it an acceptable film.

First I will like to address the gentlemen that wrote a comment about the film being shown in Puerto Rico without English subtitles. I just came back from the theater and the film DOES have the subtitles in English. So, instead of involving politics on this site inform yourself.Now, about the film. The film is divided in three different situations, each involving the sweet and sour feeling that is called love. The cast did a great job in their acting, the characters were believable and the situations reflect different aspects of everyday life.Maldeamores may well be the start of a new line of high quality Puertorican films that will bring a renaissance to that industry in the island.

I had the enormous privilege of seeing this film at the Tribeca film festival this past Monday, April 30th 2007 and I cannot stress enough how wonderful this film is. The film itself centers on 3 story lines that focus on love as their central theme. Not just love, but love at different stages in a person's life. To say the least co-directors Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz and Mariem Perez Riera elaborate and handle all three stories with amazing ability. Being a puertorrican myself just recently "transplanted" from Puerto Rico to NYC I can say this is the best puertorrican film that has come out of my home country in years! I am not saying this just because this is a puertorrican film, but because it is truly great. I myself am not a big fan of puertorrican films because they tend to be too talkative and have a somewhat theatrical aesthetic to them. Its interesting to see how this aesthetic seems to be changing in recent films and especially this one. The dialogue is sharp and doesn't expose more than is necessary (which tends to be a problem of past films), and the camera work is eloquent and perfectly suited to the stories being told. The time the director spent away from Puerto Rico (recieved his BFA in Film Direction from the Art Institute in Chicago and is also an international commercial advertisement director) clearly shows through the movie, as he is able to present such a heartfelt slice of what it means to be a puertorrican born and raised on the island with the eloquence that not even Jacobo Morales could in his films. I guess you need to be away from your country for awhile in order to be able to create such a beautiful work that clearly feeds off the memories we take with us wherever our paths may take us. Carlitos y Mariem you have made Puerto Rico very proud! Pa'lante!