Who's in It: Barbara Mori, Christian Meier, Manolo Cardona, Gaby Espino
The Basics: Fancy-pants people in Mexico have lost that lovin' feeling. So the wife begins to hit on her husband's brother. Talk about doing it where you live …
What's the Deal? This movie is totally hard to watch with a straight face. All I could do was think of the Saturday Night Live telenovela sketches called Besos y Lagrimas. It's ripe and steamy here, but tasteful and not-so-naughty, even though the subject matter is "controversial." If you're starved for an old-fashioned, rue-the-day, moralizing, "lite" sex drama with hot Latinos, then this is it. If not, then you're me.
When a Movie Bores You, There's Always Furniture: And this one's got it. These folks live in one of those glass-walled modernist houses that no one on earth except superrich famous people in real life and middle-class average people who are movie characters can afford. But at least you get to pay to sit and look at it. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Mini-Trend: The new wave of Mexican filmmaking has produced a whole bunch of films that have great style and good production values and sometimes innovative stories. This isn't one of them. But within that new wave is a subgenre about peeking into the lives of the more-money-than-you class, which is universally attractive. Duck Season, the recent bored-teens movie, lived in that world, too.
What to See Instead: Duck Season. It has all the heart and humor and simmering sexual tension that this one wishes it had.