The Heart Knows Review
Director: Marcos Carnevale
Date Created: 2025-05-30 22:01
1.5
The Heart Knows Review: Written and directed by Marcos Carnevale, Corazón Delator is an Argentine film that features an all-star cast including Benjamín Vicuña, Julieta Díaz, Peto Menahem and others. The film is a mere 1 hour and 29 minutes long but promises to provide a heart-rending experience based on love, loss, and redemption. Basically, it is the story of Juan, a tough-talking business tycoon who receives a heart transplant and after that, his life shifts in ways he could hardly have dreamed of. Unfortunately, with the good set-up and even poetic atmosphere, the film fails to deliver the emotional punch such a story deserves.
The Heart Knows Review
The idea of a person changed when one gets another’s heart is one of the concepts that has fascinated me for years — it starts to open up potential explorations of soul, memory, and emotional transformation. But almost from the start, I had the feeling that Netflix’s The Heart Knows would disappoint the emotional reward I was anticipating. It was plodding, the character development rushed, and worst of all, the film was uncertain as to what it was — romance drama, family drama, or character study. And that uncertainty is what you’re left watching.
Juan, played by Benjamín Vicuña, is a distant, hard-bitten businessman — the kind of guy who can’t even recall the name of his neighbour or care about anything other than his profit margin. When he receives a heart transplant, he begins to feel things more intensely, as though there’s a little piece of the donor’s soul left behind. This prompts him to go out and find the donor family, and interrogating the donor’s widow, Julieta Díaz, is the result. That’s where the emotional heart of the picture should have been — but for some reason or another, it never quite gets there.
One thing I had a gigantic problem with the movie is that it just doesn’t connect on an emotional level. There are a couple of moments where you’re expecting to get a lump in your throat — someone grieving, someone being given a do-over on life, someone finally breaking open after all those years of emotional stagnation — and none of those ever really come to pass. It’s as if the actors are phoning it in. I wanted to feel the widow’s sorrow, the confusion of Juan, the bittersweet tension between them. Instead, I was strangely detached, as if I were observing a rehearsal rather than the actual performance.
A second letdown was the supposed romance. If the poster is leading you to think that this is one, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it would be warm and substantial. But there is no romantic relationship between Juan and the widow. They exchange a formal and awkward conversation for the most part, and when the film implies that love is unexpectedly flowering, it would be more of a plot point than an actual emotional flowering. I found myself asking not just about their relationship, but why this is happening. For love? Gratitude? Guilt? The film never does seem to know, and as a viewer, that left me confused.
And the worst part was, the way the film is assembled isn’t helping it out. It intercuts back and forth in a clunky or jerky motion. It seemed like they used pieces of the story and omitted them, as if someone had a full script and cut it back to a leaner version but didn’t iron out the wrinkles. Maybe because it really is so short, but rather than it having a lean, streamlined look, it has a cut-short feel.
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All that aside, though, I do want to give credit where credit is due to the performances. The actors are obviously good, and I could tell that they were trying to make the most of what little they had to work with. Vicuña brings Juan’s development quietly and unobtrusively, and Julieta Díaz acts her part with dignity, although the script does not afford her character the indulgence of tears. Good acting, however, can only accomplish so much when the writing is not good enough to support it. The dialogue is dry in places, and there are groan-inducing moments of bad humour or bad language done obviously for shock effect and not for necessity.
What disappointed me most about the film The Heart Knows wasn’t that it didn’t move me, but that it could have. A movie about a man whose heart transplant leads him on a not-so-predictable emotional odyssey? That would have been rich, poetic, and emotionally evocative. But the movie is more of a first draft that never quite got completed — a set of ideas that never quite bloom.
Argentine Movie The Heart Knows Review: Summing Up
In the end, The Heart Knows movie left me more frustrated than anything. Not angry, not with a broken heart, not moved — just disappointed. It’s not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it’s certainly one of the more forgettable ones, and that’s the worst. For a movie with a name so emotionally charged, it’s ironic that I was so emotionally detached.
The Heart Knows 2025 is now streaming on Netflix.
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