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In Amantes, Aranda focuses tightly on his three leading actors, effectively conveying the dreadful, consuming power of passion. The films portrays a mortal struggle between a strong phallic widow and a younger patriarchal woman for the love of a young man in a romantic love triangle.
A love triangle set in Franco’s Spain during the 1950’s starring Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz and Maribel Verdu. After finishing his military service, a provincial young man rents a room in Madrid to be near his fiance. Shortly after moving in, his widowed landlady seduces him into a world of sensual pleasure and petty crime.
Aug 24, 2015 · The 1991 Amantes [Lovers], a lurid tale of a fatal love triangle set in a provincial town in the late 1940s, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and earned Aranda the Goya (the...
Jun 29, 2023 · While looking for work with the aim of marrying his girlfriend Trini (Maribel Verdú), he takes lodgings in the house of a widow (Victoria Abril), with whom he begins a torrid affair. Fueled by passion, obsession and greed, Paco and Luisa devise a plan to remove Trini from the picture.
Vincente Aranda’s newfilm is a melodrama, finely balanced and controlled, immaculately performed and executed. Set in the fifties, Aranda’s film focuses an ironic microsscope on certain elements of Franco’s Spain, exposing a set of immoralities that propel the film towards its inevitable destiny.
Lovers: A True Story ★★★ Amantes 1990 (R) Erotic love triangle in 1950s Madrid, while Spain is under the suffocating dictatorship of Franco. Naive, young Paco has a virginal, hardworking fiancee named Trini.
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Aug 21, 2018 · Vicente Aranda’s shocking Amantes (Lovers: A True Story) – itself based on a shocking crime that occurred in Madrid in 1950 – retains its vitality and power more than 25 years later.
