Something Bitter in the Mouth explained

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Director:Eloy de la Iglesia
Country:Spain
Language:Spanish

Something Bitter in the Mouth (Spanish; Castilian: '''Algo amargo en la boca'''|links=no) is a 1969 Spanish film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It is a blend of psychological thriller, erotic-intimist melodrama and sociopolitical parable.[1]

Plot

César becomes the object of sexual desire of three women (Clementina, Aurelia and Ana) for different reasons.[2] [3]

Production

The film had issues with Francoist censorship,[4] primarily involving the script rather than the finished cut. They prevented the film from the denouement featured in the original script, with the three women killing César, as the executioner ended up being the mentally-retarded servant Jacobo. The final script was penned by Eloy de la Iglesia with the collaboration of Ana Diosdado (uncredited).

Release

The film was theatrically released in Barcelona in 1969. It opened in the Spanish capital in 1972, after the success of De la Iglesia's The Glass Ceiling.

Reception

Fernando Morales of El País described the film as "a personal and murky melodrama, full of morbidity, which had good manners", yet also "greatly diminished by the [censorship] issues".[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. 278. Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información. 38. 2015. Cine policíaco del tardofranquismo: el thriller en el "período oscuro" del cine español (1969-1975. Ediciones Complutense. Madrid. José Luis. López Sangüesa.
  2. Web site: Eloy de la Iglesia, mucho más que cine quinqui. Prensa Ibérica. Quim. Casas. 10 August 2018.
  3. Book: Gómez Méndez, Carlos Alberto. 47. Eloy de la Iglesia. Cine y cambio político. Discursos del disenso del franquismo a la post-transición. Getafe. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2015.
  4. Web site: Muere Juan Diego, monstruo del cine español. La Marea. 28 April 2022. Manuel. Ligero.
  5. Web site: El País. 16 July 1996. Fernando. Morales. Algo amargo en la boca.