Amar te duele

Amar te duele
File:Amarte duele.jpg Movie poster for Amar te duele
Directed by	Fernando Sariñana
Written by	Carolina Rivera
Produced by	Fernando Sariñana Francisco Gonzalez Compean
Starring	Luis Fernando Peña Martha Higareda Alfonso Herrera Ximena Sariñana Pedro Damian
Distributed by	20th Century Fox IFC Films Icon Entertainment Warner Bros.
Release date	November 8 2002 (Mexico limited)
Running time	104 min.
Language	Spanish
Budget	$5,000,000 US (est.)

Amar te duele is a 2002 dramatic film written by Carolina Rivera and directed by Fernando Sariñana. It is based on the clasical play “Romeo and Juliet” of William Shakespeare. In the story, both families hate each other because they belong to different social classes and they want racism and discrimination to be stronger than love. This movie offers various youth archetypes of urban and modern Mexico inside a story about sexual orientation and adolescent idealism because the film focuses in this type of audience. It was also released in Argentina, Chile and USA, where it received good reviews.

Plot

The story begins with Ulises, who lives in a suburb of Mexico City and whose father sells clothes in the market. He is accustomed to living humbly and he belongs to a socioeconomic class called naco (slang). Ulises lives surrounded by a world of drugs, graffiti (this one being his great passion), sex, alcohol and other excesses. One day Ulises and his gang of friends decide to go to play paintball, and in the game Ulises has an encounter with a man named Francisco who was the boyfriend of Renata, without Ulises knowing. When they face they hold a strong fight due to the discrimination suffered by the friends of Ulises when Francisco’s friends insult them. The fight ends with a series of shoves and blows that hurt the pride of both sides.

Shortly thereafter, Ulises life takes an unexpected turn as he meets Renata in the Santa Fe Mall. She is a rich girl who likes the good life. Renata was buying clothes with her inseparable friend and confidant "La Güera" and her racist and unbearable sister, Mariana, when suddenly she crosses seductive glances with Ulises at a clothing store. Ulises feels strangely and deeply attracted to this charming girl without knowing why he feels that attraction. His dreams are broken when he realizes that she belongs to a higher socioeconomic class than him. Despite this, Ulises decides to follow her in the mall while Renata and her companions try to play with the boy. Renata’s friends tell Renata to kiss Ulises until the meeting ends with an unexpected and passionate kiss between them. After that great moment, Ulises continues to follow the girls because he does not want to lose the one that could be his real love. The only thing he managed to find on that occasion was disappointment as Ulises encountered with the harsh reality around him: Renata was Francisco's girlfriend. Francisco realizes that Ulises had been following Renata and orders his bodyguards to catch him so that Francisco can have the opportunity to hit him with his own fists. It is here when both remember their first encounter in the paintball and Francisco unleashes his fury against Ulises. Renata tries to stop the fight but Ulises manages to get away and escapes from the mall.

Ulises can not remove the captivating beauty of Renata from his mind and decides to intentionally provoke an encounter with her, knowing that she constantly visits that mall. That's why Ulises decides to go to the mall every day until he can find her again. Ulises hopes come back to his heart since he sees Renata again. This time she is with her mother so the meeting becomes more difficult to realize. Ulises takes advantage of Renata’s mother’s carelessness to approach and speak directly with her, who after a short time to chat with him believes to be convinced of being in love with the boy. Renata gives her phone number to Ulises to arrange a future meeting because the two are very interested in having a formal relationship.

A few days later Ulises calls Renata at her house, a very large and elegant residence, with the aim of inviting her on a date. He calls to a radio program that is dedicated to attach couples and says his invitation to Renata, who accepts. "La güera" becomes a direct accomplice of Renata because she helps keep the secret from Renata’s parents who believe that Renata is meeting with her friend. Their first date happens in the same place where they had met, Santa Fe. Multiple clandestine dates continue until they finally become couple. The uncomfortable unbalance between the social classes of Ulises and Renata unleashes a series of disagreements among their friends, including Mariana and Ulises’s gang. But they trust that the love they feel for each other is the most important thing and decide to continue their relationship regardless of what society thinks, facing all barriers that they might face in their path. Renata is determined to bring a deeper relationship because Ulises thinks that she is a great girl. Ulises gifts are of cute portraits of his face, handmade by Ulises by himself, to huge painted graffiti on walls made especially for her.

This makes Renata feel very special, because she had not previously had that kind of feelings being with boys like Francisco, who offered only trivial and material things, but nothing that Ulises now offered: love. For a while, Ulises and Renata became inseparable, they even stop going to school in order to be together more time. It is when Francisco discovers this situation and his jealousy makes take revenge on Ulises, so Francisco sends his bodyguards to beat him in a brutal way at Renata’s school where Ulises had been leaving Renata after dating. Renata can do nothing to prevent the beating.

When Ulises shows his wounds and physical marks of the assault to his mother she decides to advise to him to stop seeing Renata. The reaction of Ulises’ friends is somewhat more radical as they decide to go to Renata’s school to set revenge. They start beating the rich kids in a massive and bloody way. Many of the rich kids were injured and the vast majority was innocent. This reaches the ears of Renata’s parents, who had forbidden her to see Ulises again, and she tries to defend their relationship, but their parents do not understand her reason. Renata is completely isolated from the outside world, but when she finally manages to talk on the phone with Ulises it is just to say goodbye, because she has decided that is the best for both. Ulises thinks that Renata does not love him anymore but what Renata really wants is to protect him. Ulises does not take Renata’s decision well and begins to mourn and lament. He is on the brink of madness. His friends try to comfort him, but their efforts are futile as the only thing that could bring calm to him is to be next to Renata again.

Ulises is determined to see Renata again, despite the opposition from her parents, so he climbs over the roof of Renata’s house and goes to her room where their encounter culminates in a physical and spiritual union of both. After their meeting they decide to escape together and go far away to a place where nothing and no one can prevent their love. Mariana accidentally hears their plans and she calls Francisco to tell him. Before leaving, Ulises goes home and leave his parents most of the money that he had earned since he began working. The couple goes to the bus station and just when Ulises and Renata are preparing to leave, Francisco, Mariana and “La Güera” appear to prevent the escape. Desperate to keep Renata, Francisco pulls a gun and threatens to shoot her if they do not stop. Ulises cares nothing other than being with Renata so he challenges Francisco to do so, but unexpectedly Francisco, who is inexperienced in the use of arms, accidentally shouts Renata in the chest. A few days later, Renata dies while in the arms of Ulises, but not before telling him how much she loves him and how sad she was because things did not come out well. Ulises goes into shock and refuses to accept the death of his girlfriend; he refuses to accept that he has lost the love of his life.

Cast and Production

Direction: Fernando Sariñana.

Country: Mexico

Year: 2002

Genre: Drama.

Duration: 104 minutes

Script: Carolina Rivera.

Production: Francisco Gonzalez Compean and Fernando Sariñana.

Music: Herminio Gutiérrez and Enrique Quezadas.

Photography: Salvador Cartas.

Assembly: Roberto Bolado.

Art Director: Mirko von Berner.

Release date in Mexico: November, 8, 2002

Cast

• Luis Fernando Peña as Ulises
• Martha Higareda as Renata
• Ximena Sariñana as Mariana
• Andrea Damian as “La Güera”
• Alfonso Herrera as Francisco
• Daniela Torres as China
• Armando Hernandez as Genaro
• Pedro Damian as Renata’s father
• Patricia Bernal as Renata’s mother
• Zaide Silvia Gutierrez as Ulises’ mother
• Eligio Meléndez as Ulises’ father
• Jose Maria de Tavira as Alejandro
• Pablo Velasco as Ulises’ brother

Awards

Amar te duele and its cast have been nominated many times for important awards. It was nominated for the Silver Ariel for the categories of Best Actor (Luis Fernando Peña), Best Original Score (Enrique Quezadas) and Best Supporting Actor (Armando Hernandez); and by the MTV Movie Awards for Favorite Actor (Luis Fernando Peña) and the Sexiest Scene (Martha Higareda).

The film has also won many awards the Audience Choice Award for Fernando Sariñana in the Chicago Latino Film Festival (2003); the MTV Movie Award for Favorite Actress (Martha Higareda), Favorite Movie, Favorite Song for a Movie (Natalia Lafourcade) and Favorite Villain (Alfonso Herrera) in the MTV Movie Awards Mexico; the Silver Goddess for Best Music (Enrique Quezadas), Best Newcomer (Martha Higareda) and Best Supporting Actor (Armando Hernández) in the Mexican Cinema Journalists; and at least the Best Actor award (Luis Fernando Peña) in the Mons International Festival of Love Films.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of Amar te duele contains a strong blend of rock in Spanish and pop.

• Title of the CD: Amar te duele

• Interpreter: Various

• Format: CD

• Origin: Mexico

• Songs included in the Soundtrack:

CD 1

01.- Amarte Duele - Natalia Lafourcade

02. - Soñe - Zoé

03. - Mas - Kinky (band)

04.- Caliente - Pulpo

05.- Sabor a chocolate - Elefante

06.- La negra - Diabolo

07.- Funeral Reggae - Genitallica

08.- Guanabi - Pulpo

09.- En el 2000 - Natalia Lafourcade

10.- Tu tienes un lugar – Mario Domm

11.- Cuento - Ximena

CD 2

01.- Malo - Pulpo

02.- Te ofreci – Diabolo

03.- No quieres venir - Volovan

04.- Mañana no es hoy - Ximena

05.- Llevarte a Marte - Natalia Lafourcade (with the special colaboration of Leon Larregui)

06.- Amarte Duele - Natalia Lafourcade

07.- Las huellas - Ximena

08.- The other side – Fey (singer) (with the colaboration of Dj. Grego e-latin club)

Extra information

• The drawings made by the character of Ulises are really made by Luis Fernando Peña, the director of the film, except for the graffiti that was made by professionals.
• When filming the tape, the actors could not go to sleep at their own houses because they had to work for 24 hours.
• Fernando Sariñana appears in the scene of the mall at the beginning of the movie, insulting the “nacos”.

External links

• Template:Es iconAmar te duele at IMDb
• Template:Es icon "Amar te duele: Una película para jóvenes y cursis", Pablo de Sainz, laprensa-sandiego.org, January 3, 2003
• Template:Es icon Official Page of the Movie
• Template:Es icon Useful information about the film
• Template:Es icon Movie Awards