Son of the Bride 2001 123movies

Watch: El hijo de la novia 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn’t spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways..
Plot: At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn’t spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.
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Ratings:

	7.8/10 Votes: 15,787
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	68/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 170 Popularity: 5.284 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wonderful touching jewel
My wife ‘found’ this film, of which I hadn’t heard, in our local video shop and I’m so delighted she did.

The central performance of Rafael was a tour de force – this actor stands very strong beside the likes of Pacino, and I can imagine him in many of the earlier ‘gangster with hidden depth’ roles the latter excelled in. He was so believable as the ‘godfather’ neighbourhood restaurateur. The other principal actors were also brilliant, although in my opinion Eduardo Blanco as the comedic interest overegged and hammed a little too much in a couple of scenes, eg as bogus priest. But that is nitpicking in one of the most memorable romantic films I’ve ever seen.

I totally agree with one of the reviewers who compared and contrasted to the dreadful film travesty made of ‘The Notebook’recently which missed all the buttons around Alzheimers and real people with real believable feelings and reactions. I also agree that while if this product had been American with J Nicholson, etc it would have been a surefire Oscar winner, it would actually have been ruined by the Hollywood treatment…

Thanks you Argentina, and I hope to see much more of Senor Darin before long.

Son of the Bride The Hollywood Reporter
MONTREAL — It’s not too early to start anticipating that this outstanding Argentine-Spanish co-production will be one of the Academy Award nominees for foreign film. Close to perfection in every regard, provoking more laughs and tears than all the films one sees in any given season combined — and a movie that would make such masters as Frank Capra and Billy Wilder proud — “Son of the Bride” (El Hijo de la Novia) earned the Special Grand Prix of the Jury award in main competition at the World Film Festival of Montreal (HR 9/4).

Director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella worked for much of the past decade in the United States in television and won two Emmy Awards for directing. He co-wrote the screenplay of “Son” with Fernando Castets after the pair collaborated on Campanella’s 1999 feature “Same Love, Same Rain.” While the Spanish-language “Son” has strong appeal to mature audiences, a smart domestic distributor could take it on the art house circuit, where the film could achieve a resounding success. Rafael (Ricardo Darin) is a 42-year-old restaurant owner and divorcee who wants to change his life. Always on his cell phone dealing with work problems, he’s got a beautiful girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke) and a loyal staff, but money problems and pressures to sell his business are taking a toll. He has a young daughter who lives most of the time with his ex-wife, while his aging father, Nino (Hector Alterio), who started the restaurant Rafael took over, is a gentle, supportive soul.

The title refers to Nino’s desire to grant the decades-long wish of his wife, Rafael’s mother (Norma Aleandro), who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, to have a church wedding. In scene after exquisite scene one gets to knows these characters and sympathize with them. Rafael is a man in crisis who does not judge others and does not blame the world for his problems. But he’s also not always aware of how much love and support he has to help him get to the next stage of life. When he has a heart attack but recovers to nearly his former energetic self, Rafael decides he needs more “freedom” and sells the restaurant, while also contemplating a move to Mexico. Fortunately, those around him, including a childhood friend-turned-actor (Eduardo Blanco), are not altogether behind him, and the lead makes the best of what he’s already got.

From the constant stream of little jokes and bittersweet moments involving his parents, work and the women in his life to the unabashedly emotional peaks, Rafael’s story is so uncommonly rendered with cinematic skill that it frankly leaves one delirious with admiration. The cinematography, music, editing and, most of all, the performances cannot be praised too much.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 2 hr 3 min (123 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Juan José Campanella
Writer Juan José Campanella, Fernando Castets
Actors Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro
Country Argentina, Spain
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 37 wins & 12 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,524 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm