I am a Marco Berger fan.
The first of his movies that I watched was "Hawaii", then I moved to "Sexual Tension" and I realized how great he is telling stories full of desire, creating sexual tension. It is pretty clear that the main issue in his movies revolves around this "unspoken" desire... the same with "Taekwondo", which barely had rounded characters. Although it was rather slow, at least the main characters were surrounded by people that did not act like they are eternally depressed such as Juan Manuel Martino. He would lift things up. That is NOT the case with *this* movie. Of course, Juan exhudes sex. I have to applaud Berger's eye when casting men, but we never get to understand why Gabriel would fall *in love* with him, they barely say anything to each other. We only see them coming and going out of the house, watching TV and smoking or in bed...
I don't understand why people can applaud the casting on this movie. I get nothing from Gaston Re's face (or his close-ups) and don't even make start with his "daugther"... men... pretty much EVERYONE recites their lines but the girl is the worst, even correcting herself along the way. Until the end I understand why they decided to keep so many of her scenes. She is "important" somehow. Precisely for this, I would have chosen another actress to play this part. I was never invested in the father-daughter relationship.
I know the title is "the blonde one" but Juan's demons would have created a richer story.
If we were able to see the two of them as three-dimensional characters, the story had been far more enjoyable and I would have understood why I was supposed to root for either of them.
Review of The Blonde One
