The Girl from Uruguay

For me, the movie doesn't live up to the book. But, that's always hard to do-especially with a book like this. A lot of what makes the book great is the writing style. The prose is quick & easy to read. Much of the story is dialogue & internal thoughts. These things are hard to translate onto the screen. However, the director did a good job making a movie that looks slick & the actors brought the characters out pretty well. Without spoiling it, they also add some interesting (& meta) differences to the structure of the plot.

Because I rated the novel so highly, I was excited yet skeptical going into watching the movie. Although, of course, I would have loved for the movie to surprise me by being wonderful, it certainly could have disappointed much worse. It's worth a watch. I want to see more movies directed by Ana García Blaya.