The Virgin of Lust explained

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Screenplay:Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Director:Arturo Ripstein
Cinematography:Esteban de Llaca
Editing:Fernando Pardo
Music:Leoncio Lara
Language:Spanish
Runtime:2h 31min
Distributor:Lauren Films

The Virgin of Lust (Spanish; Castilian: '''La virgen de la lujuria'''|links=no) is a 2002 Spanish-Mexican-Portuguese drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein from a screenplay by Paz Alicia Garciadiego. It is loosely based on Max Aub's story La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (1960).[1]

Plot

The film is set in Mexico in the 1940s. Nacho works for tyrannical racist Don Lázaro in the Café Ofelia. He falls in love with Spanish prostitute Lola.

Release

Distributed by Lauren Films, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 6 September 2002.[2]

Reception

Deborah Young of Variety considered that patient viewers are rewarded by "a memorable vision of sexual obsession as an everyday matter, paralleled to the devastation wreaked by great movements of history and politics".

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered the film to be "a magnificent direct hit of surreal cinema between the eyes that fascinates and, unfortunately, also makes you dizzy".[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Sánchez Zapatero, Javier. https://books.google.com/books?id=t3J1oVeFvBsC&pg=PA234. 234. María Pilar. Rodríguez Pérez. Exilio y cine. 2012. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Deusto. Bilbao. 978-84-9830-364-3. Estrategias de adaptación de un relato del exilio republicano español: de La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (Max Aub, 1960) a La virgen de la lujuria (Arturo Ripstein, 2002).
  2. Web site: La virgen de la lujuria · España-Portugal-México 2002. 11 June 2023.
  3. Web site: El País. Ángel. Fernández-Santos. Ángel Fernández-Santos. Cumbre coja. 5 September 2002.
  4. Web site: Fipresci Prize . Fipresci. 2017-12-03 .