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Cine Latino: Director Juan Solanas, on the Challenges of Making the Alternate-Universe Romance 'Upside Down'

Cine Latino covers, well, all things relating to Latino culture and the movies, every Wednesday. It's safe to say that Kirsten Dunst's latest indie project, Upside Down, is a feast for the eyes. The romantic-fantasy-drama follows a young man's search for the long-lost girl of his dreams. Helming the project is Argentinian director Juan Solanas, who gives this forbidden love tale a new twist by setting the two lovebirds (Jim Sturgess and Dunst) in twinned planets with opposite gravities: he lives on poverty-stricken "Down," while she lives on the wealthy and exploitative "Up"—where people from "Down" are strictly forbidden.    In a recent phone interview, Solanas told us the film was inspired by a single image that came...
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Elisa Osegueda 14 Mar, 2013
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