Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Customer Reviews:

I Need to know the number of the hotel room.......2005-03-16

I need help. My question is someone could tell me the number of the hotel room where Diana meets Santiago. Please email me if you know. I will apreciate it a lot. cosars20@hotmail.com

Pleasant enough........2005-03-16

This film is a romanitic comedy about a couple whose relationship consists of a sequence of chance and planned encounters beginning in the sixties. It is a conventional tale, well executed. The passage of time requires two sets of actors, both well chosen. The music and settings quite nice. There are a few silly scenes, but overall it is a good movie for a quiet evening.

Only complaint - the production seems to be made for Spanish television. The picture quality is not great, and the subtitles are small, white, and often unreadable.

A Film that Touches Upon Life With Wit and Picardia.......2003-01-02

I enjoyed this film over the holidays. It stars an the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz who manages to steal my breath away with her refreshing non-hollywoodish beauty. In the beginning, there was the Beatles and there is scene where she almost touches them- a real image of the beatles is used (i'm assuming from the 1965 era)...she steals into John Lennon's suite and plans to give herself to him but ends up hiding under a bed with the bellboy who she will casually encounter over the rest of her life; even as she loses that refreshing charm to become increasingly borgoueis and very much likea hollywood has been...the film captures the change and then returns to that refreshing beauty once more for a brief surprise towards the end...the film is charming, ful of wit and picardia; and should provide refreshing viewing from those tired of thetypical blockbuster rental...

THE WAY WE WERE.......2002-05-28

Written and directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira in 1996, LOVE CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH is a spanish comedy presented by Vanguard in its original widescreen version with english subtitles. Only a trailer as bonus feature.

Santi and Diana first met under John Lennon's bed in Madrid while the Beatles were giving a press conference in a 5 star hotel. Over the years, the couple will meet again a number of times but their life together will not exceed a full week in a 30 years period. Santi and Diana are madly in love but who knows whether their love would have lasted so long if they had the opportunity to live together.

Four actors playing two characters, a couple of eccentric secondary parts and a few really hilarious scenes could persuade you to buy or rent this DVD. I've liked very much the first part of the movie that gives to Penélope Cruz the opportunity to create the character of a young hysterical Beatles fan. The director perfectly recreates the 60's with tricks that could have appeared in Robert Zemeckis' FORREST GUMP or Woody Allen's ZELIG.

The second part of the movie lacks of the energy distillated by Penélope and Gabino Diego. In my opinion, with 30 minutes less, the movie would have been a perfect romantic comedy. But LOVE CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH still is a very good surprise for the curious movie lover lost in the wide choice of the available DVD's.

A DVD zone Penélope reserved shelf.

Cute and Romantic..................2001-12-23

Ésta es una apariencia divertida en la infidelidad. Penelope Cruz (Diana) es bella, como siempre. El director recrea unas pocas escenas de viejas películas románticas para ayudar a hacer esta historia. Tú podrías comenzar a pensar en amores que tú tuviste en el pasado. La película es un poco largo. La banda sonora de música acrecienta el romanticismo. Me gusta el uso de los Beatles en la historia - te ayude a entender la referencia de tiempo de la película. Ve la película con tu cariño. Tú no puedes remover los subtítulos de la película, desafortunadamente.

Average customer rating:

I Need to know the number of the hotel room
Pleasant enough.
A Film that Touches Upon Life With Wit and Picardia
THE WAY WE WERE
Cute and Romantic...........

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Starring: Ana Belén , Juanjo Puigcorbé , Gabino Diego , Penélope Cruz , and Carles Sans
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira
Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005NB9V
Release Date: 2001-10-23