Aventis | 
| Director: Vicente Aranda
Actors: Juan Diego Botto, Victoria Abril, Joan Miralles, Josa Cerro, Luis Giralte
Studio: Timeless Media Group
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 77976
Format: Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: Catalan (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 011301652331
EAN: 0011301652331
ASIN: B000EHSVUA
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: March 7, 2006
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Product Description
Aventis is based around a legendary Spanish style of storytelling, known in the Catalan language as "aventis," blending fact, fiction and myth to tell its epic tales. Decades after the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, a doctor and a nurse stumble across a body that played a vital role in their childhood "aventis". As flashbacks reveal the story that may or may not have happened, this modern couple uncovers a whole new series of surprises.
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A Confusing Period of History Made Even More Confusing! January 18, 2007
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
'Si te dicen que cai' ('If they tell you I fell') aka AVENTIS is a very long film made in 1989 by Vicente Aranda based on the novel by Juan Marse AVENTIS. Apparently 'aventis' are stories created by bored youths in post civil war Barcelona who try to explain historical events mixed liberally with fiction, fantasy, superhero characters, and smoldering sex. In this case the aventis are re-workings of the Spanish Civil War history, a time span than runs from 1936 to 1940 to 1970 to the present. To understand the progress of events would take a straightforward documentary: toss in the concept of 'aventis' as made up by youngsters and the storyline is impossible to follow.
Perhaps in another director's hands, one less associated with his own political leanings, this film concept could have worked. It does, after all, have a cast of some of Spain's finest actors - Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Juan Diego Botto, Jorge Sanz, Javier Gurruchaga, Lluis Homar and many others less well known now. There are so many crosscurrent stories lines that keeping the characters straight is a major problem. We see Jorge Sanz as a paid performer in a brothel: he performs bizarre sexual acts with the very pregnant Victoria Abril to satisfy a voyeur customer peeking through the curtains, yet we also see Sanz and Abril as lovers. The rise and fall of Franco, the conflicts of WW II fascism, communism, democratic republic, and all the machinations of politics and subterfuge and heroism and death make such an odd stew that finally filters down to the death and autopsy of a prostitute by a disturbed doctor....it just goes on and on.
The film is just being released on DVD and the color transfer and quality of film suffer. But those are technical items than can be easily forgiven if the movie itself were more worth watching. Doubtless those viewers who are well grounded in Spanish history from 1936 - 1989 will get much more out of what is probably a fine parody of a country at odds with itself. But for the casual viewer, looking at the film as a piece of Latin surrealism would be the only reason to view it. In Spanish or dubbed English (bah!) with no subtitles as option offered. Running time 120 minutes! Grady Harp, January 07
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