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= Déjala Correr (film) =

Déjala Correr is a 2001 Argentinian fantasy comedy and drama film directed by Alberto Lecchi from his own and Enrique Cortes’s script and produced by Fernando Blanco and Luis Sartor , based on the 1999 unreleased Spanish short “Rewind” by Nicolás Muñoz Avia and Rodrigo Muñoz Avia. The film tells the story of Diego (Nicolás Cabré), a young pizza delivery man who comes into possession of a magical video camera that allows him to rewind time and uses it to manipulate events in house party in order to gain the affection of Mónica (Julieta Díaz), his love interest.

The film was released October 4, 2001 to moderate critical reception, and won Favorite film (Película de la gente) in the 2002 MTV Movie Awards South Feed

Plot
The movie beings with Diego (Nicolás Cabré), a young delivery boy, riding a motorcycle to deliver pizzas. He struggles with a traffic jam and in his way, he crosses Manuel (Fabián Vena), a politician as he says goodbye to his wife and daughters, who are going on vacation. Diego delivers a pizza to an antique shop, where he meets Mónica (Julieta Díaz), a saleswoman and one of Diego’s favorite clients who he is in love with. In order to have an opportunity to establish a relationship with her, he invites her to a party at his home that night. However, he does not intend to have a real party, only a small dinner so that they can get to know each other. While he is in the antique shop, a clock that had just been purchased falls to the floor and is broken. Diego assures the devastated Mónica that he can get it fixed, and insists he will give it to her during the party. Diego leaves, and goes to take the clock to his friend Leonardo (Axel Pauls), a mysterious and inventive old man who does not speak. While he is at Leonardo’s, Diego sees a video camera and asks to borrow it, thinking that he can capture that night’s events, that he fully expects will be special.

As night falls, Diego’s friend Belén (Florencia Bertotti) comes to Diego’s house while complaining about her issues with her boyfriend. Diego ignores her and tells her he is going to capture the most important moments of his life with Leonardo’s video recorder. To his surprise, after he rewinds the tape in the camera, Belén is gone from the apartment. She comes again, and again she complains about her boyfriend, using the exact same words. At first, Diego does not pay attention to this event, being more concerned with making his home neater and hiding his favourite band paraphernalia, because he told Mónica he did not like the band in order to impress her. After that, Mónica arrives at the party with her friend Manuel, the politician Diego had passed while working. Diego realises that Manuel is cheating on his wife with Mónica and lying about his marriage.

Despite having some initial success with Mónica when Leonardo delivers the repaired clock to the apartment and Diego can give it to her, things do not go well for him after that. Belén's boyfriend René (Pablo Rago) arrives, suspecting she is cheating on him with Diego, and this complicates Diego’s plans to be alone with Mónica. Diego tries to entertain everyone with his innovative musical instruments, but both René and Manuel start mocking Diego for everything he does, while Diego is dealing with burnt food, nerves and tension. Even though Diego is having a bad time, he suggests everyone start dancing, taking the opportunity to play Monica’s favorite singer. For a moment it seems that things are going to improve with Mónica, but René, who is drunk and still suspecting Diego of being in a relationship with Belén, tries to ruin the party by spilling water onto the music player. Since no-one saw that unfold but the camera is still running, Diego tries to rewind the tape to show them what happened. By doing that, Diego finally discovers that by rewinding the recording, he can literally rewind time. Upon making this discovery, Diego rewinds time back to the beginning of the party and tries several times to fix everything that went wrong, with varying degrees of success. Diego tries to change events so he and Mónica can get closer, but he is consistently unsuccessful in getting time alone with her so he can confess his feelings to her. Despite his best efforts, he gets in a fight with Manuel in which Diego hits his head, and while this finally gets him a few moments alone with Mónica in which it seems they will finally be able to get together, he loses consciousness due to the injury to his head. Emergency services are called but Diego dies with no possibility of changing time in his favor, since the camera broke in the panic that ensued his collapse.

However, after he is taken away, Leonardo repairs the camera and rewinds time before the point where the fight begins. Diego manages to avoid injury, and this time he is successful in establishing a relationship with Mónica. Leonardo appears one more time and Diego gives the camera back to him, along with his gratitude for what Leonardo did. Leonardo takes his camera back to his place, and while he is securing the camera in an old chest, he opens a folder in which there is a portrait of himself and the Mona Lisa, suggesting he is actually Leonardo Da Vinci.

Cast

 * Nicolás Cabré as Diego


 * Fabián Vena as Manuel
 * Pablo Rago as René
 * Florencia Bertotti as Belén
 * Gabriel Goity as Man in the store
 * Julieta Díaz as Mónica
 * Axel Pauls as Leonardo
 * Lola Berthet as Belen’s friend
 * Jorge de la Reta as doorman
 * Juan Pablo Galli as pizza maker
 * Gabriel Molinelli as kiosk clerk
 * Julieta Sartor as Manuel’s daughter
 * Paula Sartor as Manuel’s daughter

Production
Déjala Correr  was inspired by the year 2000 unreleased movie “Rewind” by Nicolás and Rodrigo Muñoz Avila, after Zarlek Producciones bought the rights to the production.

Adrian Suar was responsible for casting; however, Alberto Lecchi stated in an interview to La Nación newspaper that the movie originated with the thought of having Cabré as the lead actor since working with him on the 1994 TV series “Nueve Lunas” and he left all other casting decisions to Suar.

Most of the film was shot in a single location in an apartment in San Telmo, Buenos Aires using a handheld camera, which brought unique technical complications that Alberto Lecchi considered gave the film a special atmosphere.

The film was shot over a period of four weeks and was released only two months later.

Reception
Dejala Correr had moderate success in its first two weeks in theaters, making usd $30.096 locally by October 16 in box office admissions. As an independent movie, there is no further information available on total box office earned.

The movie is rated 6,2 out of ten stars in IMDB with 341 votes and 5,7 out of 10 in FilmAffinity with 468 votes

Upon release, the movie received generally unfavourable reviews. Movie critic Gabriel Alvarez described the movie as simplistic and juvenile, leaning on the charisma of its actors to hide or minimize the deficiencies of the plot. Adolfo C. Martínez stated in La Nación newspaper that the movie was “predictable with a few sparkling moments.” The critic argued that the movie was generally monotonous with only a few moments of humour. He also stated that the most interesting part of the film was the interpretative work of Nicolás Cabré, Pablo Rago, Julieta Díaz, Florencia Bertotti and Fabián Vena.

Awards
The movie won Favorite film (Película de la gente) in the 2002 MTV movie awards Latin América South Feed (mostly Argentina)