Ciudad en Celo (City in Heat)

It is regrettable that I missed seeing even a single film is Pelicula, last year's Spanish Film Fest sponsored by Instituto Cervantes. Just like Fiesta in 2006, last year's film fest was held at Greenbelt 3's THX cinemas. I was able to watch Princesas and El Metodo in 2006 but missed seeing the 2007 line up. I wanted to see 7 Virgenes, Ciudad en Celo, Lantana and Tu Vida en 65, but at the last opportunity, all the seats were sold out (I don't remember which film it was) so we just watched Stardust, which, luckily, I really enjoyed so I even blogged about it.

After hours of idleness in front of the computer, with a little help from geeky friends, I was able to watch Ciudad en Celo, with English subtitles. (Just to digress, I found out I can actually edit the subtitles by altering the .srt file!) Aside from igniting my passion to enhance my knowledge of the Spanish language, I was so pleased with this film I would highly recommend it to my friends. I won't go into any review of the film which could spoil the plot for any of you. Let me just say that it is curious how this film can relate to people's sentiments asking why they are, why they are not, why are they not yet, why they can't be, why they are no longer, and why they even thought they won't ever again be in a relationship. Which question are you asking? Which question am I asking?

Some movies paint love stories as if love happens as matter of fact, black or white, in heat or not. Whoever coined the social networking term "it's complicated" was at the same wavelength as the filmmakers Ciudad en Celo. Love, indeed, is always complicated.