This Spanish film is a brilliantly written romantic drama without any of the unsubtle, inauthentic adornments we have come to expect from the heavily-marketed rubbish that passes as romance these days.
Lovers of the Arctic Circle takes you on a journey of longing, heartache and love. You will fall in love with the two wonderful central characters. This is a film that will find its own niche somewhere in your heart.
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This is the second film we have reviewed starring the talented Fele Martínez. He produced a superb performance in Tesis (1996).
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You can find more information on this Spanish-language movie on Wikipedia and IMDb.
Like we always recommend: don’t ruin surprises by reading spoilers or watching trailers. The following trailer, as usual, gives away far too much.
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Title: Los amantes del círculo polar
Language: Spanish
Direction: Julio Médem
Screenplay: Julio Médem
Cinematography: Gonzalo F. Berridi
Editing: Iván Aledo
Score: Alberto Iglesias
Stars: Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri, Nancho Novo
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Hey! I come from Spain. And talking about Julio Médem, I prefer “Ardilla roja” (I don’t know its traduction to English) instead of the Lovers. As I see this film, the script is quite poor and the performances aren’t too much credible.
Greetings from Madrid!
Hi Osmio! Thanks for commenting, although you can see that I don’t agree with you!
La Ardilla Roja (1993) is called “The Red Squirrel” in English. I haven’t seen it yet but I will try and get myself a copy. Many thanks for the tip!
Saludos
Shimky
Many thanks Shim I will try to get it on Amazon. Dadda
Hey there pips! Shimkymeewy
So lets do opinionating
Long time since I watched Medem’s films. Room in Rome has been in my watchlist for two years; recently I wrote a “suggestion” as Shane Carruth may have copied RinR poster in his latest Upstream Color.
Anyway, Tierra is my favourite Medem’s, but have no “objecticity” as I like Karra a lot and I love Silke to bits 😛
I like Fele in general, not so much Najwa.
Tesis is IMHO Amenabar’s first and best
that opinionating enough (pilingBS)
all good
Hola!
Wow, yes, the posters are almost identical!
I agree with you about Najwa Nimri. It’s a bit of a disappointment when the beauty of Kristel Díaz is replaced with Nimri’s plain looks in Los amantes del círculo polar.
Thank you for your opinions. I have only seen one other Medem film – Lucía y el sexo – which I loved.
By the way, I love your two 34-years-apart photos!
chiiirs rabbit 😉
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An unusual typical love story ! That’s how I would put it.
Hey! Good work here! Cool blog!! I´m from Spain and I like specially this film (haha…) But I´m with Osmio you have to see “The Red Squirrel”,… you will love it!. And you will love Emma Suarez too… 😉
Oh, the story of Ana & Otto… Since I saw this film many years ago, It became one of my favorites. It was the first time that I saw a story like that and for me it was like a revelation. I found myself thinking about the characters, the story, the dialogues over and over again. It haunted me for days. It was incredible!