Pep Munné is an aging plastic surgeon who falls for a young female assistant (Mariana Anghileri) while attending a medical conference. Soon he begins inventing new reasons to spend more time with her. His wife Cristina (María Barranco) begins meeting with a psychiatrist (Jean Pierre Noher) in order to figure out what is going on in her marriage.
Acting
Pep Munné commits fully to insufferable protagonist energy.
Direction
Subiela's signature dreamlike touches elevate midlife banality.
Director
Eliseo Subiela
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Subiela filmed this during a prolific late-career period, recycling his obsession with dream logic in mundane settings.
The TMDB score is brutally low (3.8) partly because Western audiences expected Man Facing Southeast magic and got instead a deliberately uncomfortable character study.
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