If you loved Aún estoy aquí, try Las ilusiones perdidas
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama / History territory. If that's the register that drew you to Aún estoy aquí, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Las ilusiones perdidas is
A big, old-fashioned literary adaptation, they don't make many of these anymore. An impoverished young poet chases fame in Paris, but mostly finds corruption. It's a long movie about how hard it is to be an idealist, perhaps too long.

