About the nicest things that can be said about this cloying Argentine comedy about a motherless boy who meddles in the affairs of the adults around him are that Almodovar star Carmen Maura plays a lonely widow and the 1960s period detail is nearly perfect. Eight-year-old Valentin (Rodrigo Noya) dreams of one day becoming an astronaut even though he's so nearsighted he needs Coke-bottle lenses to see (and has a voice so grating he could probably shatter them with one well-timed shout). He lives with his poor, widowed grandmother, Abuela (Maura), in a dark Buenos Aries apartment, but Valentin isn't an orphan: His mother left when Valentin was only three, and his rich f...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins