Product Description

After meeting at a party, Daniela (Blanca Lewin) and Bruno (Gonzalo Valenzuela) spend the night together in a seedy hotel room passionately making love. But appearances aren't always as they seem. While the two strangers catch their breath, they share their most intimate desires, reveal their darkest secrets and expose their emotional vulnerabilities in this erotically charged film from award-winning director Matias Bize (About Crying).

DVD Extras:
Bonus Interviews, Short film by director Matias Bize, Deleted Scenes, Rehearsals and TV Spots, Photo Montage

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30458 in DVD
• Brand: Koch International
• Released on: 2008-03-04
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 85 minutes

Customer Reviews

About love and dissafections!
Matias Bize is a talented Chilean director who has astonished the world with this chamber story totally filmed into a motel room and a couple of lovers.

The plot is very simple. Both of them decided by different reasons (the last rest before the duty of marriage and the last adventure before undertake studies of the fourth level).

So, what it would seem a simple love affair without major importance, it will become for both of them, a reencounter with their inner afflictions, doubts, fears lost illusions and an enormous affective thirst.

In the semiotic lexicon, there` s a vital clue; neither one of them wants to step the floor (he allude to a joke from his childhood) but in reality the overlapping of conventionalisms and superficial banality in which we live, have inured them to live into a cage of moral canons and common places that they will be discovering once they have decided to open the dark side of the human soul.

A very interesting project, filmed with absolute conviction, superb naturalness in the dialogues and a sensual photography that show us the dazzling and alluring beauty of Blanca Lewin.

This film was elected in 2006 as Best Spanish Foreign Film at the edition of Goya Awards.

En la cama pays tribute to Linklater's Before Sunrise.
En la cama is a 2005 Chilean film directed by Matías Bize. The film takes place entirely in a single motel room. Using the same minimalist style as Richard Linklater's 1995 film, Before Sunrise, it tells the story of a young Santiago couple, Bruno (Gonzalo Valenzuela) and Daniela (Blanca Lewin), who experience a deep, romantic connection through their conversations, which eventually culminates in a night of passionate sex. In many ways, Bize's film seems to pay tribute to Linklater's far better film (which starred Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), but Bize brings nothing new to the story other than perhaps the point that meaningful conversation has the potential to lead to a deeper emotional intimacy than the sexual act itself. En la cama was Chile's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It will appeal to anyone who has first enjoyed Before Sunrise/Before Sunset. Recommended.

G. Merritt

Erotic and Surprisingly Perceptive
Two relatively ordinary (but uncommonly attractive) 20-somethings meet at a party and go off to a motel for what they think will be a relatively uncomplicated one-night stand. As the night unfolds they, and we, learn that one-night stands don't always turn out the way we expect them to, and sexual encounters can touch our emotions in ways that are both surprising and poignant.