lonely-chaotic-soul The poetic language of the film, the well-thought of ideas, and the artistic concepts are great. It's very brilliant and creative watching it only once wouldn't give it justice.

filmalamosa Detailed character development of a young man (Martin) and woman (Mariana) who live in the same building and lead very lonely somewhat neurotic impeded lives. She is afraid of elevators...he lives alone with a dog and didn't leave his apartment for two years.It is intelligent and beautifully filmed.I found it started to drag about an hour into it... before that the first half hour was too perfect to believe. I saw immediately that this was quality.There are some great scenes of their social lives.. Martin meets a pretentious date on line who insists on speaking French---that was very comical. Some of the things fall flat Mariana having sex with a mannequin is one.Eventually they end up together at the very end--but it takes too long. I was looking at my watch during the last 20 minutes was so glad when they finally met and it ended. They should have edited it down--understand the original version was much much shorter.It would have gotten 10 stars if it had continued through out like the first 30 minutes... it doesn't. I gave it 7.RECOMMEND

udoricht This is a movie about life and solitariness in modern capitol of Argentina. Urban chaos, modern way of life and new technology keep people apart which was the first point of the movie and title "Sidewalls" is just metaphor for those things. Sidewalls describes main protagonists lives of loneliness, displeasure and endurance. In the end Internet unites them and sidewalls lost its purpose which was the second point of the movie. Maybe the end is in some kind of way like in Hollywood style but it is not very bad flaw. This movie has in my opinion artistic qualities 'cause production, direction and acting really worked here. Storyline was good as well.

leoyoshiyang I've read that the director is also an advertiser. His experience helped to capture the great atmosphere in this film. Specially the psychological side of the characters, how they see, think and live their lives, what they are looking for and their personality attributes. Most important of all: this isn't a common romance film, although it's actually pretty ordinary, the filming makes the difference. The symbolism throughout the entire film is nice. It also has some philosophy in it, maybe even some critic as in "modern life brought people closer to the world but further from their own lives." Well, I'd say that after all, what made the difference was the way it was filmed. A seven-rating would be too low, even though I think that eight is way too high. Actually, I'd give 7.5