The ubiquitous Gael García Bernal puts his considerable charm and equally substantial comic chops to good use as TV actor Eligio, who’s a bit too busy hitting on his soap-opera costar to realize that the titular wife, played by Spain’s luminous Verónica Echegui, has split for a writer’s college in wintry Iowa. He tracks her down, near-slapstick encounters with the TSA and Midwestern taxi drivers providing laugh-out-loud entertainment along the way, but the infidelity keeps impinging on both sides. You might want to slap them both, but the film’s intense likability wins out in spades—this is a mighty hard movie to resist—with added spice coming from its gentle lampooning of Mexican machismo and more trenchant (and satisfying) barbs at the expense of American bigotry.

Georgia Straight, August 2017