★★1/2 Photographer boy meets hairdresser girl. They fall in love but the girl’s brother doesn’t like it. Just when everything seems to be on track, she is diagnosed with progeria, that rare genetic disease in which someone ages so that at 15 they look 80. Let’s put aside that this girl has the rarest progeria in the world: let’s focus on the telenovelesque twists alla Lozano Dana (or, for that matter, the years hurt) by which separation leads to sadness, poverty, family struggle, redemption and final and sad reunion, plus a kind of new peace, are from manual (Kapelusz, third grade, circa 1977). What gives it half a star more than Between Life and Death is that the actors are a little better and the visuals are less clichéd. Another archetypal tale tamped down by mediocrity.
