The Ages of Lulu

1990

The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu’s affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there’s no such thing as sex after […]

Going Places

Going Places

1974
November 8, 2017

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Love After Death

Love After Death

1968

During a cataleptic fit, Montel is buried alive, a burial plotted by his greedy wife Sofia with several men, including her lover, Montel’s doctor. Exiting his grave, Montel goes on a sexual rampage. When the conspirators engage in gun play at an abandoned castle, Montel arrives to stab the doctor and strangle Sofia, followed by the revelation that he is actually dead.

Treacherous Alliance

2003

One morning, Marianne announces to Paul that she is leaving him for a certain Matthew. Paul is ready to accept the separation, but not Laura, the girlfriend of Matthew, who arrives at his house and asks him to help her take revenge on the infidels. Her plan is very simple: She and Paul will pretend to have fallen desperately in love with each other, thus, inciting jealousy from their adulterous halves. Paul, at first reluctant, […]