Palm Trees in the Snow

[Flip]

Hey everyone I just watch a film called "Palm Trees in the Snow" on Netflix it was amazing. Its a love story about a Spaniard man named Kilian and a Guinean woman named Bisila two people who love each other but weren't born in the right era. It is in Spanish but it does have English sub.

[Marissa]

Thanks Flip, I just looked it up and will check it out subtitles and all lol.

[Ciera]

I just watched this movie too! It was amazing and the love story is so beautiful. Highly recommend! I believe it was based on a book so it's definitely on my to-read list!

[Flip]

Ciera wrote: "I just watched this movie too! It was amazing and the love story is so beautiful. Highly recommend! I believe it was based on a book so it's definitely on my to-read list!"

It was a book first, that's awesome I didn't know that!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mstcat]

You can actually change the audio to English if you don't want to read the subtitles. I was going to watch this the other day and something came up. Good to know it is worth watching though!

[Ali]

and here i was wondering ..what can i watch that 's interesting and different..good choice, ill check it out as well

[Ali]

well....honestly i'm one of those persons who even now, decades after slavery was abolished still get pissed off watching reenactments...sorry i simply can't ever justify a lovestory under those conditions...i spent the first half of the movie (insert as many negative emotions as you can imagine), the whipping scene after he found the snake was when i almost called it quits.

Oh Jacoba...why didn't you die??..but since i was waiting for this "great love" that was so amazing (can you feel my sarcasm?), with my emotions in an uproar, i watched til the end.

He got points for the apology "it takes a strong person to say sorry (even when they weren't at fault) but a stronger person to show forgiveness".

So in conclusion did i love it? hell No!....(ok fine, maybe a little at the end) Was it a great story? unequivocally!!

[Ciera]

i definitely see where you're coming from! its kind of hard to find these kind of love stories, especially ones that have a white man/black woman, that don't include some kind of brutal back story or one that isn't a slave movie. I loved the movie for mostly for the couple and the scenery, but there was a lot of problems with how they portrayed the spanish people compared with the guineans on their own land.

Id wish they got to the kilian/bisila story way faster than they did.

[Flip]

Ali wrote: "well....honestly i'm one of those persons who even now, decades after slavery was abolished still get pissed off watching reenactments...sorry i simply can't ever justify a lovestory under those co..."

I get were you're coming I from I too didn't like the whipping scene among other parts in the movie. But I did say they were both born in the wrong era for their love to be accept. And to me Jacobo may not have died like I'm sure everyone wanted him to, but he didn't get to be with the woman he loved and he also lost his brother's love forever. But overall it didn't make me hate the film.

[Carolin]

@ Flip - thanks!
Just watched and I enjoyed the bittersweet love story between Kilian and Bisila, (also, the actors playing the characters seems be a couple in real life). Loved the scenery, so beautiful.

[Vallsykes]

This movie was awesome. I do agree that historical re-enactments of colonial rule, especially when it comes to exploiting foreign lands and enslaving/subordinating the native/local people are a bit harsh to watch, but they are also harsh/necessary history lessons or reminders.

I found myself researching equatorial Guinea.

There is so much I wish that high school taught, rather than those boring "dead president" history books. More importantly, if the part in history of Palm Trees in the Snow was more talked about, along with decolonization, and returning to Africa from the Americas, I think that even the holes in black history, etc, would be more eliminated and similarly history class, more interesting.

That was a tangent, but yeah...the movie was engrossing for me. I was glad Julia gave up her pursuit of Jacobo. I felt he was a product of years of arrogant greed and privilege of his forefathers. Only, his brother Kilian (not a Spanish name(?) was able to transcend, but still he was a product too.

The love story between Kilian and Bisila was heartbreaking. I am still trying to figure out how it moved me so, when how they got together and subsequently went about there love was taboo and kind of effed up.

Great love, great saga of betrayal, independence and world tension.

[Megan]

That came up in my suggestions (after I watched My Last Day Without You not my favorite but you may like it). I wanted to give it a try but I haven't had time to sit down and actually pay attention to a movie.

[Deviki]

I just finished watching this movie .........ok it was hella long movie LOL
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SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCH THE MOVIE
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Anyway, I don't know why but I have so much of questions and I also don't quite get the logic in some part......

I still cringe whenever i watch slavery scene (whipping and treating people like they are less then a human being is really hard to watch) and I also hate this "its ok to treat them like that but its perfectly ok to have sex with the girls because I'm horny"?
but this is where the story is set so I guess there is no avoiding it .......

I think the love between them is pulling and sad ....but I still have some questions, after all these years why didn't
Kilian come back to take her away to his home ? I mean he couldn't do it back then but I'm sure over the years he could have come back for her ......instead he decided to help them by sending money ? why???

Didn't the pastor at the deck told Julian that he could come back for her after he has gotten legal papers from the embassy or something right ?

So technically she had sex with her cousin in the beach .........in a strange country with a dude she barely knew .......... *facepalm*

If I was Julian, I would not even bother saving Jacoba even if he is my own flesh and blood. I mean I would have considered it but after he just disregarded his action as "So what if I didn't pay her" pissed me off so much and I would have just left his arse!!!!

I don't get why its not his daughter who went to search for the "truth" but instead it was his niece who went on this journey ?

The attraction between Kilian and Bisila was awesome, although half way through the movie, I can't recall why he liked her in the first place .....was it love at first sight ?

It's sad that until the end they saw met each other in person again.............

[Deviki]

Carolin wrote: "@ Flip - thanks!
Just watched and I enjoyed the bittersweet love story between Kilian and Bisila, (also, the actors playing the characters seems be a couple in real life). Loved the scenery, so be..."


oh yeah just googled them ......a real couple !!!

[Fashionista]

Mstcat wrote: "You can actually change the audio to English if you don't want to read the subtitles. I was going to watch this the other day and something came up. Good to know it is worth watching though!"

Mstcat- I'm trying to watch Palm trees in the snow movie. How do you change the audio to English?

[Mstcat]

Fashionista - Click on Audio and Subtitles in the movie's menu and it gives you 5 language options. English is right below European Spanish.

[Fashionista]

Mstcat wrote: "Fashionista - Click on Audio and Subtitles in the movie's menu and it gives you 5 language options. English is right below European Spanish."

Thanks so much! ;-)

[Mstcat]

Fashionista wrote: Thanks so much! ;-) "

You're welcome!

[Brittney]

I had a question about a scene in the movie when clarence shows up at basilas house and laha fernando asks if killian is his afther and she shakes her head no. Im confused is he killians son or jacobos. I remember him saying its our secret like that was his son but i wasnt sure. I know iniko was the son of the tribesman but not a cousin cuz they shared no blood relation...so can anyone plz clarify who is laha dad

[Ali]

Deviki wrote: "I just finished watching this movie .........ok it was hella long movie LOL
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you have indeed asked many of the same questions i had when watching this movie.

Kilian had this great love even in his old age but never made an effort to find her? Whats the point of this so called great lasting love? Nothing apparently. so I will not be an advocate of pinning away..

I also agree with you on the sleeping with a stranger bit. And! the guy was at first slightly hostile towards her
but there's no accounting for taste eh.

[Ciera]

Brittney wrote: "I had a question about a scene in the movie when clarence shows up at basilas house and laha fernando asks if killian is his afther and she shakes her head no. Im confused is he killians son or jac..."

I haven't watched it in a while but i think that the younger brother was jacobo's son because of the rape scene, which I'm not sure if it was clear that it resulted in a pregnancy. But I'm assuming it did because after Killian goes back to Bisila she says she can't have anymore kids after that. I need to re watch but the movies so long!

[TinaNoir]

the English Translation of the book Palm Trees in the Snow: A Novel (didn't know that) is available on Feb 1 via Amazon. It is being offered as a Kindle First book this month (if you are a prime member on Amazon you can select one title a month of a book not yet released). Thought it sounded familiar.

[Flip]

Tina wrote: "the English Translation of the book Palm Trees in the Snow: A Novel (didn't know that) is available on Feb 1 via Amazon. It is being offered as a Kindle First book this month (if yo..."

I tried to click on the amazon button on the goodread page for the book but all it told me was error!!!

[Sharon]

Log into your Amazon account and do a search for Palm Trees in the Snow: A Novel. It'll give the option to purchase it as a Kindle First user. When I went through the Goodread page, I got error as well. I was able download going straight to Amazon. Hope it works for you.

[Kathy]

Here's the link:

Palm Trees in the Snow http://amzn.to/2hOrCKr

[Flip]

Kathy wrote: "Here's the link:

Palm Trees in the Snow http://amzn.to/2hOrCKr

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Thanks Love!!!!

[Mz.]

This movie is also on Netflix. Another good IR would be My Last Day Without You

[Ali]

Mz. wrote: "This movie is also on Netflix. Another good IR would be My Last Day Without You"
movie looks ok, i'll definately check it out