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Drama The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says ... [+]
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March 31, 2009
15 of 35 users found this review helpful
La premisa de la historia por razones que no vienen a cuento, aunque paradójicamente tenga algo de cuento, es algo que personalmente me interesa: hacer real lo ficticio.

Pero luego la película se pierde en planos pretenciosos, diálogos huecos, sentencias pedantorras y ambientes decadentes sin gracia.

Apenas dura una hora, pero la historia no es que se te haga inmortal, es que se te hace eterna.

Vamos, un pestiño brutal. La dirija Orson Welles, Uwe Boll o Rita la cantaora.

Ah, ¿qué es francesa? Pues vale, c'est une merde.
Gilbert
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