Torremolinos 73

Name: Torremolinos 73
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 15, 2005
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Candela Peña, Javier Cámara, Juan Diego

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First Run Features | Release Date: April 15, 2005 | Unrated

Starring: Candela Peña, Javier Cámara, Juan Diego

Summary: In Franco's puritanical Spain of 1973, a struggling encyclopedia salesman named Alfredo and his wife Carmen change their fortunes overnight when they agree to make their own Super 8 erotic 'educational' films to be sold in Scandinavia. (First Run Features)

Director: Pablo Berger

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 91 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

This delicious little period piece from Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger is like one of those really expensive chocolates, where you start out expecting a brief sugar buzz and end up surprised by the sophistication and delicacy of the flavor. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Slyly funny. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

Such a joyous celebration of sex and filmmaking that viewers will forgive its director for taking time out to enjoy a little of both. Read full review

Bill White

Deepened by the socioeconomic undercurrent that suggests the lengths to which workers are forced to prostitute themselves to survive corporate downsizing. Read full review

Empire Patrick Peters

This is a gentle, camp but nonetheless revealing satire on how a nation circumvented the social strictures imposed upon it by Franco's fading fascist regime. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Has the dubious distinction of being just about the mildest porno comedy ever made. It's like something the teenage Pedro Almodóvar might have written to shock his 10th-grade creative writing teacher. Read full review

Reece Pendleton

Camara and Peña are perfectly cast as the bewildered couple, and early on Berger gets some laughs from the one-note premise. But the material grows increasingly stale as the film drags on to its unintentionally creepy finale. Read full review

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