Spain · 2000
Rated NR · 1h 30m
Director Jo Sol
Starring Alexis Valdés, Mercedes Ortega, Paulina Gálvez, Miguel Molina
Genre Drama
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Although she's still hung up on the man who broke her heart (Miguel Molina), club dancer Simona (Mercedes Ortega) pledges to eradicate all memories of him by removing the tattoos he put on her body. Complicating matters is Mariel (Alexis Valdes), the owner of a Barcelona tattoo shop whose obsession with Simona's undulating form leads him to steal the money to help her pay for the necessary laser treatments.
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Simple tale is made unnecessarily complex by script's desire to give everything a metaphysical flavor, characters are across-the-board disagreeable and portentous art-school atmospherics are barely redeemed by occasionally good dialogue and a strong visual sense.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The problem with the baroque and overripe Tattoo Bar is that everybody has a past. And there's so much crosscutting to those pasts in flashbacks, it's hard to keep track of whose past you're witnessing.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Sol doesn't knit the complicated story into a coherent flow, but there are many visually striking moments along the way.
With all the glossy sex, you'd be forgiven for thinking Zalman King was directing, except that even King knows you don't need such a ludicrously complicated plot to show pretty people having sex. Each character is so burdened with gratuitous back story that it's exhausting trying to separate the grain from the chaff, until you realize none of it matters at all.
Village Voice by Nick Rutigliano
This tale of a sprung tough looking to go straight is so familiar it's faceless.