Torremolinos 73 (2003)
Country: SP/DK
Technical: col 91m
Director: Pablo Berger
Cast: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
Coerced by his employer into making amateur porn shorts with his wife for a Scandinavian part-work, struggling encyclopaedia salesman, Alfredo, develops a taste for cinematic language and begins studying Ingmar Bergman. Given the chance to make a full feature with a professional crew, he pens a Fellini/Bergman derived story of a widow in search of sexual solace in out-of-season Torremolinos.
Review:
A lot less funnier than it sounds, this homage to cheap-and-cheerful cinema with passion is a little like a Spanish Ed Wood, especially when one learns it is based on a true story and film. The cast are engaging, not least Cámara and Peña, and the period extremely well caught.
Country: SP/DK
Technical: col 91m
Director: Pablo Berger
Cast: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
Coerced by his employer into making amateur porn shorts with his wife for a Scandinavian part-work, struggling encyclopaedia salesman, Alfredo, develops a taste for cinematic language and begins studying Ingmar Bergman. Given the chance to make a full feature with a professional crew, he pens a Fellini/Bergman derived story of a widow in search of sexual solace in out-of-season Torremolinos.
Review:
A lot less funnier than it sounds, this homage to cheap-and-cheerful cinema with passion is a little like a Spanish Ed Wood, especially when one learns it is based on a true story and film. The cast are engaging, not least Cámara and Peña, and the period extremely well caught.
Country: SP/DK
Technical: col 91m
Director: Pablo Berger
Cast: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
Coerced by his employer into making amateur porn shorts with his wife for a Scandinavian part-work, struggling encyclopaedia salesman, Alfredo, develops a taste for cinematic language and begins studying Ingmar Bergman. Given the chance to make a full feature with a professional crew, he pens a Fellini/Bergman derived story of a widow in search of sexual solace in out-of-season Torremolinos.
Review:
A lot less funnier than it sounds, this homage to cheap-and-cheerful cinema with passion is a little like a Spanish Ed Wood, especially when one learns it is based on a true story and film. The cast are engaging, not least Cámara and Peña, and the period extremely well caught.