| | |  | ECUADOR | Home » » Como Voy a Olvidarte (How Can I Forget You) | | | | | | | Description: | | A box office hit in Latin America, this film is based on one of the most popular songs of renowned Segundo Rosero. Corruption, life's surprises, and destiny are explored through powerful filmmaking. Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo, Rosero, Ana Cristina Bote | | | Features: | |
• COMO VOY A OLVIDARTE (DVD MOVIE)
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| Segundo Rosero | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| Spanish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Vanguard Cinema | | Run Time:
| 74 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| January 25, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 formidableJan 13, 2005
By Critical Reader
The viewers should not be misled by what appears to be a movie with a corny plot: a love story between the wealthy, white daughter of a prominent Ecuadorian politician-entrepreneur and a popular mestizo singer from the Andean highlands. This movie pries open the nature of Latin American politics and culture by working through their fault lines. The profound regional, racial, class, cultural rifts that tear Latin American societies apart surface in the movie at a relentless pace, for it is also about adventure. The politician, who turns out to have a private army of goons to break strikes and a few political backs, becomes the president of Ecuador. But he has committed a crime and his daughter witnessed it. Suddenly, confronted by the nature of her father's power, she flees to the highlands. In the process, she finds love, but more importantly a country she never imagined existed. Ultimately, civic responsibility and love triumphs over family, leading only to self-immolation and death. This is an angry, passionate, yet funny movie with a tinge of cynicism in its ending. Well done!
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How can I forget this movie?Mar 01, 2009
By Daniel J. McGill
I must concede to the critic who gave this movie two stars that, yes, the translation is very poor, and much of the production would fall far short of what viewers in the United States are accustomed to. That said, take away one star, because the movie in spite of all these issues moved me quite profoundly. In the United States we are so used to the fluidity of our society that we do not appreciate the parts of the world where such social fluidity is much, much more restricted. If one is unfamiliar with the huge social divisions in many Latin American countries, much of the context of this movie will be lost. Sadly, if one does not know Spanish, many of the beautiful lines that are spoken between the characters will also be lost, since the translators only summarize what was spoken.
I can see why this movie was so popular in Ecuador where it brings to the screen a reality that Hollywood can never show because its cliches and metaphors have no meaning here. I also felt through this movie the sadness of lands that do not enjoy our freedoms, our traditions of rule by law, our opportunities for education and material success.
I must disagree with the reviewer who gave it two stars when he dismissed this as predictable or says that the characters are not well developed. Yes, the transitions are quite weak and I found that I had to rely upon my imagination for what might have been portrayed if this had been a high budget movie from the United States. But it was not a high budget movie from the United States or Europe or anywhere else with an affluent movie business. Accepting this, it reveals a world completely outside our First World tedium of predictable movie plots (rendered over and over with in sequel franchises and genre monopolies) as well as outside our predictable cityscapes with the same movies, stores and restaurants showing "everywhere."
An upper-class and affluent young woman who seems like she could be from the United States leads us on a run through the beauty and squalor of an underprivileged world, first showing us its strangeness and then revealing the strangeness of her own upper-class world where politicians, including her father, murder dissidents and the rule of law is very selective in its application.
In fact, she is like us, naive about about the world hidden from our view. But she is also a true heroine confronting dangers more real than all our high budget, special effects movies can ever confront, precisely because they are high budget and hiding behind special effects. The movie's title song which means, "How can I ever forget you?" answers this question with the haunting line, "you are not just my love, you are my life..." Yes, I think so. This movie failed completely to massage my expectations of trite, forgettable plots and "unbelievable special effects" (unbelievable indeed.) But it did show another world, so exotic, but so profoundly part of my own life, that like a revelation it is unforgettable.
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GREAT FILMApr 14, 2005
By Esteban Mondragon
I loved this film. It is funny, extremely funny. What was especially fascinating was that one exciting thing led to another even more exciting. A young woman finds out her father, the typical Latin American presidential candidate, is a criminal. (You even get to see a couple of bogus political tv ads...) She runs away and meets this fat journalist, a kind of Moliere's "ingenu", with whom she fights, makes up, disguises as an old lady (you've got to see that!) and meets a hoarse singer. Then come a few beatings and shootings (they are so much fun it's hard to believe it unless you see it for yourself). I can't tell you the rest, but in the middle of all this, you get to see beautiful landscapes and quaint little cities, listen to beautiful music and be moved by a gathering of 5,000 sentimental extras. It's really impressive!
 expecting more drama less cornynesssssJan 17, 2012
By Gina M. Peralta
first of all, the subtitles are ok, but the father of the girl was working to be a president, he never became the president because of his daughter finally was able to come clean to authorities and was able to be heard. Unfortuantely, she dies, but what I think it was really corny about the movie is how the first guy was helping and all of the sudden they became best friends, :?? and second, the singer is definately not supposed to be the main character, she shot him because he didnt like her from the beginning, how come they just clicked, cornnyyyyyy....
But whatever, I guess what else you can expect...
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Cheesy Latin American movie;BAD DVDMar 28, 2005
By Anthony
First of all, I would like to pay tribute to the DVD presentation itself. One would think that a DVD with an english cover and title of the movie would have a DVD menu in English. Nope, the DVD menu is in Spanish. Secondly, the English subtitles are very badly done. I watched the movie with 3 fluent Spanish speakers, who made reference to the bad translations and often omissions... The omissions are pretty self-evident; You will hear one person speaking and then another, while no new subtitles are shown! This is often the case with the movie.
The movie itself is disappointing for the 'box hit' of Ecuador in 2004. I must disagree with the other reviewer; 'How Can I Forget You' IS a corny movie reminiscent of those dreadful Latin soap-operas. The plot is cliche, while there is no basic character development and the emerging 'love' is hardly portrayed. Throughout the whole movie, I never actually sensed that the president's daughter was in danger, because I could not take this movie seriously.
The only good aspect of this film, and the reason for my 2 stars, is the documentary-style picture that reminds one of 'Battle of Algiers.' It is well done, and often gives you the impression that the film was shot on a handheld camcorder.
But definitely not recommended, except for those ardent followers of those classic 'Esmeralda' type Latin soap-operas. Latin America has developed some great films that are a must-see; they use a whole different approach to films in every aspect that cannot be described. 'How Can I Forget You' is not one of these movies.
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