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Radio Corazón review
:. Director: Roberto Artiagoitia
:. Starring: Actors
:. Running Time: 1:47
:. Year: 2007
:. Country: Chile
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Radio Radio Corazón is based on three stories that were heard on a popular Chilean radio show. In the first story, we follow the amusing journey of a teenage girl who vows to lose her virginity before graduation. Set in a more serious tone, the second part of the film shows the results of an affair between a middle-aged woman and her son's fiancé. Going into full melodrama mode, the last segment focuses on a young woman who goes from being a servant to a member of the family.
While these stories are all linked by a common theme, sex, the variance in tones turns Radio Radio Corazón into a non-homogenous work, which is only alive in its hilarious and fresh first section — think of those Italian sex comedies. The fact that one of the premises of this first story is so unexpected makes Radio Radio Corazón starts with a bang before it increasingly deflates with a Hallmark TV-type drama and a cheap romance novel.
Changing his directorial approach for each segment in order to reflect their respective themes makes Radio Radio Corazón look like the work of three different directors. Maintaining the sex comedy tone of the first story throughout the ensemble would have allowed the other two stories to stay afloat, high above their dramatic depths. Instead we're left with the weird mutation between two mediums, radio and cinema,which as proven here don't fit together.
Fred Thom
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