Adapted from a short story by Argentinean author Silvina Ocampo, the short film version from Cuba is a mysterious, humored, thrilling and elegant view to be seen. It follows Raúl (Sergio Buitrado), a man seeking help for his wife (Yori Gómez) as he realizes that she starts to develop a new personality after moving to their new household.

When they were about to marry, the idea is to already have a new house. The girl is incredibly supertitious with many things, and among them comes the notion that buying a house that had a previous owner is a terrible idea. Raúl is starting his first movements to improve at work, is not get paid all that much, so he decides to "lie" to the girl and gets a great looking house that looks brand new. She's fascinated with it, and so they decide to stay there. But slowly, she seems like a different person, one that's more carefree, more relaxed unlike her previous controlling ways. Along with those changes, the appearance of strangers in the house, thinking they're the old owners, turns things into a progressive chaos that the man will have to discover what's behind all that.

It's a nice adaptation of Ocampo's story, but it can get a little confusing since the film opts for a great use of flashbacks - absent in the original story. Here, it starts out with Raúl asking help to a music teacher (Daylenis Fuentes) that knows a lot more than we think. From then on, it's a rollercoaster of up's and down's, and somehow the film manages to find some humor in it. But it's the suspense of it all that make us fully immersed in "Casa de Azúcar". The revelation is one of those things most of us would not see it coming. 8/10.

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