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Format: VHS
Jul 1994
Not Rated
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi
95 min.
Color
UPC: 720917012599 |
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Movie Description
A romantic farce that mocks Spanish social conventions and class relations. Conchita, the status-conscious wife of a wealthy factory owner, is none too happy to hear that her ne'er-do-well son is bedding the luscious Silvia, daughter of the town prostitute--especially as the girl's mother once had an affair with Conchita's husband. So Conchita concocts a scheme to end the relationship: she hires Raúl, the town hunk, to seduce Silvia. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, and a comic roundelay begins when Raúl actually falls for Silvia and Conchita falls for Raúl. It's not long before Raúl is bedding both women... and a confrontation is on its way. Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Synopsis
A romantic farce that mocks Spanish social conventions and class relations. Conchita, the status-conscious wife of a wealthy factory owner, is none too happy to hear that her ne'er-do-well son is bedding the luscious Silvia, daughter of the town prostitute -- especially as the girl's mother once had an affair with Conchita's husband. So Conchita concocts a scheme to end the relationship: she hires Raul, the town hunk, to seduce Silvia. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, and a comic roundelay begins when Raul actually falls for Silvia and Conchita falls for Raul. It's not long before Raul is bedding both women... and a confrontation is on its way.
Film Notes
This is director Bigas Luna's 8th, and most successful, film; it won a Silver Lion at the 1992 Venice Festival.
Apparently, Luna is hoping to turn this tale into an opera, with music written by the film's score composer, Nicola Piovani.
The film was shot in Aragon, Spain.
Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Shot in Panavision.
Copyright 1993 Academy Entertainment Inc.
Academy Entertainment video #1752 as a flying pig in the box art. Video #1750 doesn't have a flying pig. Otherwise, the video and box art are the same.
Industry Reviews
"This sexy, good-natured Spanish farce has plenty to recommend it, including a nude bullfight..."
Entertainment Weekly - p.60 - Lawrence O'Toole (07/22/1994)
"...A movie that combines lurid melodrama with vast improbabilities, sexy soap opera with heartfelt romance, and cheerful satire with heedless raunch..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (02/11/1994)
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