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On a sweltering summer day in Madrid, several people make plans to meet at the Puerta del Sol, the "Km. 0" point of the Spanish road system, and these plans unleash a barrage of mistaken-identity and other screwball romantic scenarios. Sergio, a virginal office drone in an uncomfortable suit, has set up an appointment with Tatiana, a down-and-out hooker, who mistakenly meets up with Pedro, a young wanna-be filmmaker in town for the first time, who’s supposed to meet up with his sister’s friend Marga, a thirtysomething actress still looking for her first break who takes advantage of a chance encounter with a big-deal director to further her career, and so on. So Sergio meets with a gay seducer, Pedro tries to turn Tatiana into Audrey Hepburn, and Marga turns the phrase "break a leg" to new purposes. A frantic, sweaty, witless ring-around-the-rosy to square zero, the film coyly reinforces the most misogynist stereotypes and sentimental conventions. Apparently American TV has erased all memory of Luis Buñuel and even Pedro Almodóvar, at least from the minds of filmmakers Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda García Serrano. In Spanish with English subtitles. (105 minutes)
BY PETER KEOUGH
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