The Extraordinary Tale of the Times Table

The Extraordinary Tale of the Times Table (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Malaga Spanish Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
73 min + 11 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Laura Alvea
Jose F. Ortuño

Written By:
Jose F. Ortuño

Actors:
Aïda Ballmann ..... She
Ken Appledorn ..... He
Mari Paz Sayago ..... Her Mother

Synopsis:

From the only home she's ever known from which she never leaves, 'SHE' has written 1,212 letters to no one in particular and 'HE' is her only response. 'The Extraordinary Tale' is a darkly comic satire where reality and fantasy meet and two whimsical, emotionally damaged misfits fall in love during a pen-pal courtship. Fun-loving and innocent to the world but fragile and damaged by the past, they dive into sex, love, marriage and baby and when reality crashes into fantasy, things go terribly wrong.

This unusually told dark fairytale romance is a bizarre love affair between a gawky and naive young woman and a quirky young man, who attempt a normal life while stranded in abnormality somewhere between reality and fantasy. SHE (Aïda Ballmann) lives a slow-paced, secluded life in silence, in the very peculiar house she grew up in with her mother who has since passed. Satisfied and happy but lonely, SHE has typed out and sent 1,212 letters in 1,212 days with no reply until one day, HE (Ken Appledorn) sends one back. Soon a pen-pal courtship escalates into a date-to-meet, which terrifies the isolated SHE. After they meet, SHE remains silent, only willing to communicate through her trusted manual typewriter; even while in the same room. SHE suffers with an obsessive compulsive disorder due to a childhood more than complicated. So does HE. The friendship evolves and quickly sex enters the picture. Awkward at first, (but so are they), SHE refers to an illustrated manual for guidance and HE follows suit. They are clearly happiest when making joyous, abandoned love. Soon visits become more frequent until they decide to live together. It's a matter of time before the sun rises on sickness and HE must break the news that SHE is pregnant. Now this woman who still lives in an everlasting childhood must face the greatest challenge of all: becoming a mother. In no time at all, the honeymoon is over as HE gets a job and is never around and SHE must raise a child with no skills learned from her reckless and inattentive mother. Things suddenly become very bleak indeed and the silly and innocent life becomes unraveled for both. Alienated from what she is experiencing and from HE, SHE reverts back to non-communication, preferring the safe detachment of typed letters to conversation about what is going on. Fundamentally damaged by her past, SHE decides to take matters into her own hands and turn back the hands of time, back to fairytale land and a time of innocence where normal rules don't apply.

Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl suffers an obsessive compulsive disorder, boy and girl live happily ever after.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 May, 2015.

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