Vertical Love (1997)

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Vertical Love on IMDb 6.7/10 90 votes

Released:
1997-12-16

Overview:
The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love

Director:
Arturo Sotto Díaz

Runtime:
1h 39min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

  • Cast:
  • Jorge Perugorría
    as
    Ernesto Navarro Aces
  • Silvia Águila
    as
    Estela Diaz Iglesias
  • Susana Pérez
    as
    Lucia
  • Osvaldo Doimeadiós
    as
    Sgt Garrido
  • Manuel Porto
    as
    Faustino