LosAngelesTimes
Reed Johnson
The U.S-Colombian co-production Love for Rent, which roughly translates as Amor en Alquiler also uses comedy
effectively to sweeten the emotionally brusing tale of a young Colombian (telenovela star Angie Cepeda) living in the
United States. After losing her sleazy American husband of convenience, her car and her furniture, Sofia agrees to
become artificially impregnated by an Anglo couple so she can earn enough money to study law and keep
her green card.
A warm and thoughtul mediation on the varieties and vagarities of human love, Love for Rent succeeds
through its psycological subtley and its ingratiating performances, particularly those of Cepeda, Ken Marino as Prince
Charming doctor and Max W. Burkholder as a precocious foster child.
Love for Rent is a more honest and original variation on Hollywood Spanglish Cinderella
stories like the Jennifer Lopez fluff-a-thon Maid in Manhatan. Executive produced by Colombia native alvaro Albarracin, the
movie also gets a spot-on performance by Guatemalan actress Martita Roca as Sofia's cousin.
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