Between Heaven And Earth

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH is based on the somewhat Shavian premise that babies are reluctant to come into this world--that they are practicing their right to choose and have to be talked into entering this "vale of tears and suffering." Unfortunately, the Belgian director and co-script-writer, Marion Hansel, does not treat her great concept with quite enough ironic wit.

Maria (Carmen Maura), is a television journalist who decides to have the baby conceived with another reporter, who already has a wife and kids. Things are going well, until she has to cover a terrorist bombing at a nearby university. Soon, she is experiencing what another pregnant woman (Veroni...