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I loved this novela. I'm a great fan of the beautiful and talented Ana Colchero, and she shines in this period costume drama as the heroine Alondra. The storyline might seem a bit overdrawn to a more sophisticated American audience, but the story clearly reflected the social and moral attitudes of that era, and also the ignorance and misconceptions that abounded concerning insanity. The crux of the story is that Alondra, a beautiful young girl from a wealthy family, is seduced by an older married man, yet is attracted to a younger suitor whose past holds many dark secrets. Her older lover refuses to leave his wife and children and she marries her suitor( played by Ernesto Laquardia), but he refuses to sleep with her because of the heredity insanity that runs in his family. She runs off with the married man and becomes pregnant, but he goes back to his wife and she to her husband who accepts both her and the child. There are many various subplots concerning other characters, but the acting is excellent, the costumes authentically beautiful as are the locations set in both Mexico and here in the United States. There are many more plot turns and twists too numerous to mentioned within this commentary, but I found the series highly entertaining and emotionally involving.

When I was a little girl I fell in love with the movie, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. When I was an adult I lamented that they didn't make romantic pictures like Ghost/Mrs muir and the portrait of Jennie.ect. Then in the early 80's I saw this romantic gem and added a new love to my my old favorites. Christopher Reeve is not a great actor, but here he displays the gauche sincerity necessary for his role. Jane Seymour is perfection as is the music,the setting,costumes, and supporting actors. It is a hauntingly romantic picture and in such movies it is mandatory to suspend our critical faculties, and just dive into the emotions expressed by the charcters and the situation. Other films may be brilliant works of art, but usually you are unable or unwillingly to watch them over and over again. Somewhere in Time has that timeless quality that is the hallmark of the genuine Romantic Classic. This film and the ones I have mentioned above are films you feel with your soul. The human who has no romance in his soul is only to be pitied. Picking out flaws is probably why they are unable to relate to romance in the first place!