Tra di loro, uno con lo sguardo di ghiaccio, indecifrabile, da cui non trapela niente ma che trasmette un fascino gelido. Le protagoniste, infatti, sono Sam, Dani, Abby e Meaghan: quattro donne molte diverse caratterialmente, fisicamente, origini e vissuto ma allo stesso tempo hanno qualcosa in comune (un uomo e l'esercito). This was great fun: beautiful photography, well-acted, with the crisp pace of action comedies of an earlier era. Aura Garrido in the starring role gave a sparkling, magnetic performance, and her costar Jean Reno was solid as ever, with excellent chemistry between the pair. Ángela Molina as Garrido's mother doesn't have a large role, but holy cow she's a good actor, and every bit as beautiful as she was in the Bunuel films of the 70s.

Overall, if you get used to the style, the dramatics and the Enid Blyton style detective, A Private Affair is watchable. Barely. It’s not that the horrors of the civil war are ignored: there’s a dreamlike scene showing the bodies of a peasant family massacred outside their home, from which a lone survivor, a little girl, gets up and goes inside. Paolo Taviani has said that the episode was a true story told to him during the making of “The Night of the Shooting Stars,” yet it’s inserted here in such a hermetic manner that what should act as a powerful antiwar statement turns into merely an oddly inserted appendage. She is accompanied on her adventure by her faithful butler Héctor, a kind of Watson who is always attentive to details, helpful and audacious, who manages to turn Marina’s investigations around. She, for her part, will often be forced to fight to remove the obstacles that stand in her way because of her gender bias and the unusualness of a female figure with her abilities and ambitions. As to the lead character. Well, it's not the actress's fault. She can only do what the director and the writer tells her to do. But the character is just incredibly annoying to the point we just had to give up watching after only two episodes.Quattro donne con storie diverse alle spalle che in qualche modo si trovano a condividere le loro vite in un particolare momento. Ognuna con un proprio carattere, con pregi e difetti, con punti deboli e di forza. Ognuna con desideri e sogni da realizzare. Ognuna con la propria personale ricerca e visione dell’amore.

The basic premise of the story is that she can't be a policeman because she is a woman and certainly that is a credible storyline. The problem here is that the way THIS particular woman is behaving, I can't really blame the Glacian police for having nothing whatsover to do with her. That's the problem with the whole story. She might be clever enough to figure out clues, but she then is seen chasing the bad guy who is twice her size barefoot across a rooftop after losing her gun and then helping him not to fall to his death so he can then attempt to kill her? Is anybody really that stupid? That was the final straw. It was just stupid and decided enough was enough and we wouldn't be watching any furhter. As to the keystone comedy type chase scenes and some of the other supposedy amusing touches. Unnecessary and they don't work in what should have and could have been a serious piece of drama and been directed and written that way.Her brother Arturo (Pablo Molinero) is now the new Commissioner, and Marina is seen as nothing more than a flighty woman who needs to be married off. That is until she accidentally stumbles across a murder. Scovato per caso in biblioteca, incuriosita dal fatto che fosse molto stropicciato, quindi letto da molte persone, è stato il primo che ho scelto dal bottino libresco che mi sono portata a casa dalla biblioteca.