Just what I expected

Just perfect...

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Strange obsession with the approaching "leap year" anniversary of 29 February. Del Carmen's performance is powerful and painful. One Location Genre Film Making Masterpiece. There are loads and loads of detailing that can be described about this raw flick. Until finally the ending explains everything for you. But it's not easy to know what to think of it when it finally ends. I was left trying to figure out if I would consider the ending sad or happy. I'm not sure I was satisfied by the ending, but at the same time I thought it was good. I guess some movies are just there, and you can take from it whatever you wish. Albeit this movie delivers intense sense of alienation uncomfortable artistic totality of realism. Truth delivered at its rawest form. Soul- baring piece of cinema whose troubling eroticism is ultimately a vehicle for humane compassion.

The film's basic premise; and this isn't giving too much away since it's so heavily sign posted very early on, is that a woman must suffer severe abuse at the hands of a man in order to find happiness.Terrible film making. The way the camera lingers over scenes of torture and humiliation as if these things couldn't be illustrated in other ways.It is very possible to portray violence and sexual abuse of women without making it exploitative - Paddy Considine did it in the horrific scenes of 'Tyrannosaur' which, while harrowing, knew where to stop and leave things to the imagination. What really gets me about films like these is that people who know nothing of such abusive dynamics watch them and have the experience normalized. I'm sure many abusive husbands and partners will get great satisfaction seeing how their acts of violence and hate can actually help women (something they probably told themselves all along). This is a film which sends out the wrong message about violence towards women. To come back to 'Tyrannosaur', that film is not without flaws but it at least gets the emotional response of women to abuse right. Women do not just put up with rape and torture and then suddenly get better because of some leap of insight. It may seem that way to an abuser of course which is why 'Leap Year' is the ultimate abuser's fantasy. Told from a male perspective and dwelling obsessively on the imagined nobility of female suffering. A truly dangerous film.

Laura is a normal woman, living in a normal apartment, has a normal job, is normal looking but is abnormally depressed.It's never verbalized but her obsession with the day her father died combined with when she tells Arturo when she lost her virginity (12 years old) and then how she says "it's none of your business" when he asks her who with - is a dead giveaway, to me at least, that it was at her father's hands. The long silences between her answers and the questions give it away too.This is the heart of the movie - her painfully normal life combined with her painfully abnormal obsession with submissive sex and her father's death, as well as his highly probable molestation of her. All of that dictates her ultimate goal; to die on February 29th., the same day her father died. She plans on manipulating Arturo's weakness for dominance and BDSM, thus having him do the deed for her. Probably because suicide is a sin for Catholics. All the little but strategically placed details like a picture of Mary, Laura praying etc. - all of that makes this movie that much more interesting. It may not be high budget but it addresses so many things about humanity in general; loneliness, abuse, the normalcy of everyday life, religion, pain, love.... it's just the whole rainbow of humanity in one, low profile and modest movie from Mexico.The acting is raw and oh so real - if I ever saw an actress that deserves more attention than she is getting it's Monica del Carmen. Awesome job Monica! Hollywood! You can learn a lot from this one - and that's saying a lot coming from someone who usually ONLY watches Hollywood-made movies.p.s. this may look like a porn movie to those who take everything at face value but it really isn't. A face-value-black-and-white outlook on life usually just means lack of maturity and lack of life experience. Nothing wrong with that - but this movie definitely isn't for people like that.

This is by far, the worst movie i've ever seen!!! If i would wanted to see a porn movie... i would rather have accessed into any free porn site and for sure, i could have seen a better quality of BDSM porn, than the vulgar, grotesque and meningless one this movie shows...Mexican films have become an easy way to watch meaningless sex, drugs and violence... nothing further than that... The topic just doesn't matter, there is always at least one of those in Mexican films...Plus, The acting of Año bisiesto's principal character is terrible! The phone calls she makes to brother and friend Raul, are just out of credibility... Cheap production, cheap direction, cheap creativity, cheap acting, cheap story... very expensive the cost of loosing time this way...