Tocar el Cielo
This Argentine film ended up better than I expected largely thanks to an original story and some good acting. By no means this gives it a complete thumbs up – after all it can be contrived in parts and some of the byways it travels down like nursing bats and Romanian cleaners are decidedly weird. But it is about connecting and about our constructed family often being more to us than our real family and many other Betiana Blum does surprisingly well in a tough part, distant from her usual sexy middle aged self. 
Chete Lara rants a bit as the intellectual Pedro but gets some good scenes with the ever reliable China Zorrilla. The Argentine part revolves around an arranged marriage between Facundo Arana, acceptable and Montse Germán, a little wet as Amparo, Germán’s character, wants to adopt a baby. 
There are some who will love the warm and fuzzy message here – lets just say that it ends up being a decent effort with the promise of more to come from director Marcos Carnevale.
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