Wake Up Love

Wake Up Love

98 mins | Comedy, Romance | Oct. 3, 1996

Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in post-revolutionary Cuba.

Wake Up Love

98 mins | Comedy, Romance | Oct. 3, 1996

Wake Up Love
Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in post-revolutionary Cuba.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, CQ3 Films, Artear, Kinucha Mitre, Raúl J. Naya Producciones S.A.
Original title Despabílate amor
Directors Carola Jalife, Aldo Romero, Eliseo Subiela
Writers Eliseo Subiela

Cast

Juan Leyrado

as Ricardo

Darío Grandinetti

as Ernesto

Laura Azcurra

as Ana (young) / Ana (joven)

Luciano Leyrado

as Ricardo (joven)

Marilyn Solaya

as Vera

Gustavo Garzón

as Patricio

Emilia Mazer

as Silvia

Valentina Bassi

as Liliana

Manuel Callau

as Cacho

Pía Uribelarrea

as Prostituta

Walter Balzarini

as Farmacéutico