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Question about scene? SPOILERS


Roger Ebert says in his review of a one-take scene:

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"There's one unbroken shot so "illogical" it may even slip past you. There's urgent action on a sofa in the foreground and then a character stands and moves to the right, talking, and dawdles slightly and then moves to the left, and now we see for the first time the next room completely open to this one, and there is a young man seated at a table."
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What scene is this? I'm having trouble remembering this...

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I also read that review and had the same doubt about what scene he means. But I think it could be the one when Lena has made a low tone scene, and Harry sets a lunch break for the crew. Harry asks her what's wrong. She says she'll tell him later. After that, we see Ernesto Jr. recording that dialogue, and when he leaves the screen, a child is behind him, like seated on a table, that child is Dieguito, Diego, Judith's son. Then we can see people leaving the room.

But anyway, this reviewer is giving details that don't fit on that.

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Thanks. I kind of remember now...

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I just finished watching this on Blu-ray and then saw Ebert's review and also wondered where that shot was. I found this thread and went back to that scene. It does not resemble Ebert's description at all (shot is not unbroken, there is no sofa, no one gets up and moves to the right with a reveal, there is no "urgent action on a sofa").

So I scanned through the movie and still could not find that shot. The closest I could find was at the beginning when we first meet all the characters in Mateo's apartment. Judit's son is sitting in the back room listening to the story Mateo is telling and that's the only scene I found where a character is sitting in the background, but we already knew he was there.

Interesting that three paragraphs of the review is devoted to this one scene but it can't be found. Of course, I did not devote so much time to finding this scene and Ebert does say you might miss it.

Now that the Blu-ray/DVD is out, maybe someone else can shed light on this "scene."

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