In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories was released in 2001 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 4 reviews, giving The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 70%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Old Man Who Read Love Stories a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 65%, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2001, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2001 with similar scores include films like The Last Castle, Hannibal and Tortilla Soup.
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