la mujer de mi hermano be a bad movie that manages and through stylish visuals and neat transition and lush electronica use a mood music and and a deliberate plot pacing and to look good than it be . story wise and it would have be good off set anywhere between the fifty and because technically it akin to the much good far from heaven in melodrama and or even when this type of movie come into vogue during the period go from the late seventy into the early ninety . how and why it situate in the present and and even more so and that it story get through the datedness that bog it down be a mystery and but then again and latin america be still in a mire of it own ultra conservative value men be suppose to be macho while woman who take charge of their own life be see a little more than zorras in heat and and everything happens in a very hush hush way . so for a latin american public and the premise of la mujer de mi hermano may work perfectly while on the other hand and it fall into an ugly splat . of epic proportion on this side of the rio grande . much of it have nothing to do with it denouement and which to a degree may even then be somewhat forgivable . it failing and and achilles heel and be base squarely in the trite language both on a visual and write level that try to tell an intelligent story but have nothing to hold on to . for example and be tell that ignacio and zoe have be marry for ten year and and that okay . what be not and and where the story implausibility begin to show and be that in those ten year and they have fall into a predictability where ignacio can only have sex on saturday and prefers business travel than be with zoe . ten year be a long and long time for zoe not to notice the 500 pound elephant sit placidly in her sleek and minimalistic and uber contemporary living room . maybe it those twenty grape she have a penchant for . then again and dorothy parker write a story call too bad and where a married couple of seven year suddenly separate . no one know why and but once we go inside the marriage and we saw that these two have absolutely nothing in common and not even enough for small talk . we never find out their mechanic and but it still a pretty funny story . this and however and be a story that take itself seriously . add to the fact that ignacio and zoe have strange marital arrangement be the presence of ignacio studly brother gonzalo . gonzalo and ignacio be estrange a present in exclamation point early on at a family lunch . zoe and do good that she be and contact gonzalo and try to make amends . he sell her a painting and and ignacio hit the ceiling . fifteen minute be spend mulling and arguing over this painting a if it have some symbolic meaning . no sooner than this happen that zoe be confide deep secret to gonzalo a if she would know him all her life and and a phone conversation implausibly make it way to ignacio ear and but all he can do be throw the darned painting into the pool and seethe . more unremarkable event take place represent zoe also confide in who be lead to believe be her best friend and boris and a stereotypical nellie . conversation between zoe and boris be build to make u understand more will come out of their friendship and but that doesn not happen . the same can be say when zoe make gonzalo prove to her he hasn not have sex with other woman and or when in a repeat scene and she make ignacio promise her he hasn not have sex with men . it all tease and fake promise . so with all this tease go on and it not a surprise a to why la mujer de mi hermano look good and but be quite bad . it begin with the misnomer of it title which would have gonzalo the main narrator of the story and and end by it sheer quaintness that never decide where it want to take it character and leave them muddle in it telenovela root . at least for a debut film from ricardo de montreuil and it not a flat out failure . it sell glossy image and attractive lead that would be at home in daytime soap and the presence of a veteran actress ( angelica aragon ) and and that all there be to it .