In Sólo Dios sabe, Mexican Damián (Diego Luna) meets Brazilian Dolores (Alice Braga) in Tijuana. She has just crossed the border coming from the United States, losing her passport and needs to travel to the Federal District [Mexico City] to ask for a new visa.

 

What Dolores doesn’t know is that Damián found her passport, and although initially he was going to give it to her, he found the perfect excuse to keep it and thus travel with her. Seduction turns to romance and soon Damián understands that he can have the love of his life in Dolores. She is fascinated by his analytical personality as a journalist. Meanwhile Luna’s character is caught up in the mysticism of the one from the South (Dolores).

 

Just as in Bajo California, Carlos Bolado establishes his story in the relationship of two people who are considered different from the start and happen to be soul mates after sharing their own perspective of the universe.

 

Come the moment in which Diego must reveal his plan of conquest, Dolores splits to Brazil with the annoyance feeling betrayed. If the first half of Sólo Dios sabe was a physical journey across half of Mexico, now with the young man jumping on a plan to the country of his beloved, the narrative becomes an emotional expedition towards the heart of each of them.

 

Bolado pays the consequence for this script decision, since the story feels like a game between the two. The characters descend on a slide to melodrama and much of the humor of their meeting in Tijuana gets lost on the way.

 

Here, Bolado takes the opportunity to hurl questions that they must see with the importance of fate and the consequences of chance. His achievement is showing that these topics have resonance, not for existing alone, but the attention of each who add it their own lives.

 

Sólo Dios sabe is an example of the director’s intention to lead his audience on an emotional journey. Even if the final execution is not completely successful, it will always be worth taking a look at Bolado’s camera and listening to his questions about life, death and love that confront them.