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Life

Life Hanging By a Thread / La vida en un hilo
Series: Spanish Cinema Now! [Dec 8 - 26 2006]
Director: Edgar Neville, Country: Spain, Release: 1945, Runtime: 92

After the death of her husband, a young widow, Mercedes (the lovely Conchita Montes), decides to leave the countryside and return to Madrid. On the train she meets a certain Madame Dupont, a variety artist who counts among her talents a special kind of fortune- telling. She has the ability to look into a person’s past and discover what their lives might have been if one thing or another had been different. In Mercedes’s case, Madame Dupont discovers a moment in which destiny offered the choice of two men — one a hotheaded sculptor, the other a solid, well-off, respectable citizen. On a rainy day, Mercedes shared a cab with the latter, and — well, now she’s a widow heading back to Madrid. Perhaps she ought to look up that sculptor…. Based on Neville’s own screenplay, Life Hanging By a Thread, has an offbeat, almost magical feel to it, as Mercedes discovers that fate might have more in store for her than she ever imagined.




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