Enye ye-lime nenye yesihlabathi. Ngokusho kwabagxeki, izolo ku Umkhosi weSan Sebastian kwaba khona ukudumala nokumangala. Bavuma bonke ukuthi ifilimu entsha ka uPaul auster Njengomqondisi, "I-Intimate Life of Martin Frost" iyasilela ezingeni elilindelekile.
Yethulwa ngaphandle kokuncintisana, ifilimu ilandisa ngobudlelwano phakathi kombhali nomnyuziyamu wakhe okhuthazayo, ngesakhiwo se-labyrinthine. Umbhalo wabhalwa ngo-1999 futhi ngokusho komlobi wakhulelwa "njengesiqephu esincane sekamelo."
Khonamanjalo, ukufika kwalesi sihlabani kuphawulwe kabanzi Richard Gere umkhosi, wawuyini umklomelo no-Donostia ngomsebenzi wakhe kanye nomsebenzi wakhe ozinikele kuma-cinema, anikezwe wona ngu I-Aitana Sánchez Gijón. UGere uphinde walingisa ku-"The Big Scam," eyenziwe ngu-Swede Lasse Hallström, ethulwa esigabeni esifanayo.