The Dark Side of the Heart

The Dark Side of the Heart

127 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | May 21, 1992

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

The Dark Side of the Heart

127 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | May 21, 1992

The Dark Side of the Heart
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Max Films, CQ3 Films
Original title El lado oscuro del corazón
Directors Marcelo Rembado, Eliseo Subiela
Writers Oliverio Girondo, Juan Gelman, Mario Benedetti, Eliseo Subiela

Cast

Darío Grandinetti

as Oliverio

Nacha Guevara

as Death

Mónica Galán

as Ex-wife

Inés Vernengo

as The blind girl

Tito Haas

as The grill cook

Walter Soubrié

as Seller

Mario Benedetti

as Sailor that recites in German

Pablo Brichta

as Groom

Chela Ruiz

as (voice)

Andrea Tenuta

as (voice)

Miriam Odorico

as Woman 1

Marisa Aguilera

as Mustachioed girl