En la cama
Chile / Germany,
2005, 85 min
Shown in 2006
CREDITS
- dir
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Matías Bize
- prod
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Adrián Solar, Christoph Meyer-Wiel
- scr
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Julio Rojas
- cam
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Gabriel Diaz, Cristián Castro
- editor
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Paula Talloni
- mus
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Diego Fontecilla
- cast
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Blanca Lewin, Gonzalo Valenzuela
- source
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IntraMovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197 Rome, Italy. FAX: +39-06-807-61-56. EMAIL: mail@intramovies.com.
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COMMENTS
Gonzalo Valenzuela in attendance.
OTHER
Part Richard Linklater, part Samuel Beckett, In Bed takes a slice of life—a round-the-clock tryst in a motel—and turns it into a contemplation of life, love and sex. The entire film takes place in a Santiago motel room that has been begging for a remodel since the disco era. Not that you will notice any of that with two hot young Latin stars—Gonzalo Valenzuela as Bruno and Chilean TV star Blanca Lewin as Daniela—naked in the foreground. They met just a few hours ago in a café and are getting acquainted very quickly. At first a closeup, blurring montage of naked bodies, In Bed begins to follow a natural rhythm as it transforms into a relationship drama between couplings. After the first few orgasms Bruno lets on that he is leaving the country. Then Daniela lets on that she is in a relationship. Ah, how naïve of us to think that life could ever be so simple, as even a spontaneous roll in the hay proves to be a drama of conflicting emotions. Talking about his choice of “location,” director Bize says, “In bed is where you love, where you dream and where you betray.” The little deceptions, the passion, the fear of commitment, the beauty and the loneliness of young love are all laid bare in this abstract universe contained within a few hours in a motel room.
—Miguel Pendás
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
