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He has a lot of love to give... but they don't.
Corazón Loco (Crazy Heart) is a 2020 film from Argentina.

Fernando is a doctor with a double life. He lives in Mar del Plata with his wife Paula and his two teenager daughters, and works in a hospital. From Friday to Sunday he moves to Buenos Aires, where he works in another hospital... and has another wife, Vera, and a little kid. Two families, two works, two cars, two cell phones, two health services, two Facebook accounts, two everything. Even four houses in total (he has an empty house in Buenos Aires and an empty one in Mar del Plata, just in case the other wife comes to visit). And none of them suspected anything... until they do, and decide that he has to pay!

The film was to be released in cinemas in March 2020, but the quarantine caused by the Coronavirus pandemic closed all cinemas for a long time. As a result, the film was released directly on Netflix instead.


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  • Beleaguered Bureaucrat
    • Fernando visited the Planetario (an astronomy museum in Buenos Aires) with Vera's kid, and took a photo in the astronaut montage. This photo was added to the random visitors photos screen, and that almost outed him when he visited the place with Paula (she later dismissed it thinking that it was someone very similar). The next day Fernando shows up in the Planetario, demanding to be removed from that screen... and giving much problems to the guy that heard him, as there was no established procedure to request such a thing (nobody ever wanted to be removed, in fact everybody loves appearing in there).
    • Also, the staff at the hospital after his crash. Both Paula and Vera arrived, and he kept doing and requesting weird things to keep up the masquerade. For example, when they brought him his cell phones (both of them), but only accepted the one he has with Vera, standing there. And then Paula had to make a scandal against those "thiefs" that left his cell phone (meaning, the one he rejected) in the box of missing stuff!
  • Enemy Mine: When they find out the extent of their situation, and that they are not just a wife and a lover, Paula and Vera join forces against Fernando.
  • How We Got Here: The film starts with Fernando laying almost dead in the street. The film explains how he got to be in that situation.
  • Never My Fault: Fernando does not understand why his two wives are so angry at him, as he loves them both, equally.
  • Self-Disposing Villain: Fernando, trying to escape from his angry wives, get to the rooftop of the building. So he gets in the border and threatens to jump if they come any closer. He makes a speech about all the love he has for both of them, but they don't buy it. Vera sarcastically applauds for his speech, but this noise scared the flock of pigeons that were around there. They fly away, hitting Fernando, who falls.
  • Slow-Motion Drop: When Fernando crashes his car, we see both of his cell phones falling in Bullet Time.
  • Slow-Motion Fall: At the end of the film he falls from the top of a building.

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