Saturday, September 30, 2006

Torremolinos 73













We watched Torremolinos 73 yesterday night. Not a bad movie at all. A little surprising! Here is the plot, as described by Yahoo! movies (some sources did not say enough, others too much, so I chose this one)


" An encyclopedia salesman named Alfredo Lopez and his lovely wife Carmen live in Franco’s puritanical Spain of the early 1970s. One day Alfredo’s boss at Montoya Publishers makes a unique proposition that will change their lives forever. He asks them to make their own amateur Super 8 erotic movies, which will be distributed as part of a phony “Danish World Encyclopedia of Reproduction.” At first they’re shocked, but they decide to be part of this “experiment”--the films will only be sold in Scandinavia, Carmen wants to have a baby, and they badly need the money anyway."

Both main actors are excellent. They have both played in Pedro Almodovar's films. Candela Pena in Todo sobre mi madre, and Javier Cámara in Hable con ella and La Mala educación. Both brilliant movies (if you like Almodovar!).

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