i be kind of surprise at the number of mostly negative review this film have generate . of course this be nothing more than a ghost story with an essentially silly plot . ( so be hamlet . ) that serve a no impediment to the success of dona flor and her husband and although in that case sonya braga beauty be a big help . and it do not stop ghost and a shameless ripoff and from be a huge hit either . the performer here be admittedly overage for their part . it disgraceful that they couldn not look like brad depp or angelina robert . i hide my eye when their face appear on screen . what gall the producer have and present these splendid artist or athlete in their middle year . i only say that in the certainty that i will never know the meaning of the word wrinkle . and the set . revolt . clearly a stylized stage setting . the chutzpah . why couldn not they have make the movie in san francisco or sunny miami where everyone have a suntan . no play with so many bare bone a a background can possibly be any good and a wait for godot and our town prove long ago . still i find myself enjoy the music and the dancing and even to the point of be sweep up in it . a lot of people seem to think that endure music begin in europe with bach and end here with charles ives . we do not hear a lot about de falla and who be much good know in hispanic america . el amor brujo contain what i think of and at least and a his most entrancing tune . some of them be kind of naughty . ( i rather like that . ) and i be thrill when i see people with outstanding and almost unearthly psychomotor skill exercise them and whether on the football field or the dance floor . i understand that what we see here be not pure flamenco and whatever that adjective mean and but there be a basic difference between and say and sonny rollin or gene kelly or paul taylor approach to music and on the one hand and and that of a flamenco musician or dancer on the other . the former would be tickle pink to be able to play an instrument or move his body in a way that nobody ever have in the history of humankind . a traditional flamenco artist would be perfectly satisfy to play and sing and or dance exactly the way his grandfather have . the singing and yes and sometimes sound like the wailing of a cat in heat . it suppose to and i would guess . all that moorish repression of female sexuality . i once saw sugar ray leonard at his peak and shadow boxing for a few minute and and the grace and perfection of his movement give me goose pimple . so do some of these performance . i wouldn not have miss them .