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Film · 2000
Diastole and Systole: The Movements of the Heart
Diástole y sístole: Los movimientos del corazónStructured across thirty-five brief vignettes, the film tracks the highs, routine absurdities, and bitter disappointments of modern romance in Bogotá. Ordinary couples navigate courtship, marriage, and breakups with mordant humor.
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35 stories that, without a conventional thread, succeed as a mirror of everyday romance for anyone, coming close to reality and casting aside the notion of a happy ending. Harold Trompetero directs this 2000 feature, which through its blend of humor and drama demonstrates that an artificial script isn't needed to live inside a film, and that true quality can be found within the empty halls of national cinema.
From Cinema Redrum He achieved this with a genuinely respectable feature like Diástole y sístole, did so with a small masterpiece like Violeta de mil colores, and even with a film that some lump into the same pile, Dios los junta y ellos se separan, which is nonetheless bolder and even politically incorrect.
Oswaldo Osorio on El Colombiano It is very possible that Harold Trompetero will become the most important director in Colombian cinema; one can see it coming amidst the ups and downs of this brisk and sparkling body of work, which began with Diástole y sístole (2001), a movie that is seemingly light, yet very intelligent and incisive in what it set out to do.
Oswaldo Osorio on El Colombiano
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