The 'relationship' falters and they find different ways of compensating: Pina by throwing out her son's toys Igor by buying a photocopier (no, really.) Azuela and Yazpik do a good job with their parts, creating believable, everyday people involved in unusual events. They engage in a series of (disappointingly clothed) sexual encounters in the office block basement, but both baulk at the greater intimacy of a night at an hotel. Both have humdrum home lives: she is a single mother living with her manipulative young son he has a dowdy, nervous wife. ![]() Working in the same block is Igor (José María Yazpik - a lived-in face but a powerful body). Pina works in an office block as a tea lady (but no Mrs Overall she - actress Irene Azuela is very attractive). ![]() Despite it's not living up - for most of its running time - to the "contains explicit content" warning on the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 website, I enjoyed 'Las Oscuras Primaveras' (English-language release title: 'The Obscure Spring'), a slow-moving Mexican film.
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