Torremolinos 73
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Actor: Candela Peña, Fernando Tejero, Javier Camara, Juan Diego, Mads MikkelsenBrand: First RUN Features
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Danish (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of Torremolinos 73
Movie Review: All in the Name of Education
Summary: 5 Stars
Alfredo ("Talk to Her" Javier Camara) is at the end of his rope financially. His business is selling 10 leather-bound deluxe volumes of the Encyclopedia of the Spanish Civil War, door to door...and business is not good. So bad in fact that he has to sneak in to his apartment every evening so as to avoid his landlady.
But despite this, Alfredo is a lucky man because he has a truly great relationship, emotional and sexual with his wife Carmen (Candela Pena) which eases the pain and humiliation that Alfredo feels when he returns home every night, empty handed and with empty pockets.
Then Alfredo's boss decides to switch products from encyclopedias to a product produced by the "Copenhagen Institute of Sexual Research." What it boils down to is that Alfredo and Carmen are enlisted to film themselves, along with the help of Swedish coaches, having sex.
The filming, with the coaches urging and directing the action, is hilarious particularly when Carmen and Alfredo are asked to dress up: Carmen as a nurse, a bride and Alfredo as a bulging deliveryman and a soccer player to name a few of the disguises. Bare in mind that this film is set in Franco's supposedly chaste Spain of the 1970's and the film takes on the patina of an outlaw production but recalled from a new millennium perspective that adds to the ersatz disconnect between "reel" reality and reality that only makes the film's comedy deeper and more meaningful.
Director Pablo Berger has kept his film light and airy and Camara and Pena turn in subtle, ironic performances that miraculously stay on the bright, non-sleazy and somehow innocent side of their "work" and never fall into the doomed, druggy dismal world popularized in films like "Boogie Nights."
Summary of Torremolinos 73
The sexual revolution meets a bumbling door-to-door salesman and his beautician wife in the form of "educational" sex films in this satiric comedy, set in Spain in 1973. Alfredo Lopez (Javier Cámara) is an encyclopedia salesman whose work has not been going especially well lately, which is worrisome to his wife, Carmen (Candela Peña), who is eager to have a baby. As it happens, encyclopedia sales have been dismal overall, and publisher Don Carlos (Juan Diego) strikes upon an idea for a more lucrative product line -- an "audiovisual encyclopedia of human reproduction," consisting of 8 mm movies demonstrating different ways for couples to make love. Don Carlos sets up a meeting between his sales staff and Dennis (Thomas Bo Larsen), a pornographer from Denmark who likes to tell people he once worked with Ingmar Bergman. While most of the salesmen refuse to have anything to do with Don Carlos' new scheme -- especially since pornography is strictly illegal under the Franco regime -- Alfredo grudgingly goes along, and despite his misgivings Carmen is drafted to star in the first film in the series. As the films become an underground success in Spain and earns a more high-profile reputation in Denmark, Carmen is recognized in public as a glamorous porn star, and Alfredo deludes himself into believing he and Dennis are making art films. But Alfredo's ambitions get the better of him when he begins writing a screenplay for a serious feature film and Carmen becomes increasingly obsessed with having a child. Special Features: o Alternative Footage o Biographies o Deleted Scenes o Filmographies o Interactive Menu o Making Of o Music Video o Photo Gallery o Scene Access o Trailer(s)Similar DVD Movies
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