When I saw this film, most of the people in the room just hated it. Why?
Well, "Caresses" is a play on screen. Hollywood is galaxies away. And so is Broadway.
"Caresses" is made up of a series of dialogues. The tense relationship between two characters (lovers, relatives...) gets to a breaking point and the audience are witnesses of the crisis. The scene ends and an interlude of fast-forwarded images of Barcelona at night takes us and one of the characters to the next encounter.
Most people considered all this quite repetitive, meaningless, and boring.
In my opinion, the combination of these apparently unconnected scenes is a deep, moving analysis of life in the city, of love relationships in the nineties, and most of all, on loneliness - lack of love, and search for tenderness.
Love it or hate it, this film is conceptually very simple, but indeed very different to anything you've seen before.
