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Dirty Shame Puppy: Happy Daddy Bear

Puppy. Spain, 2004.

Director: Miguel Albaladejo

Screenwriters: Miguel Albaladejo and Salvador Garcia Ruiz

Cast: José Luis García Pérez, David Castillo

Subjects of interest: male homosexuality, fetishism, promiscuity

Synopsis:

Peter is a dentist with an active gay social and sexual life has to take care of his nephew Bernardo, since his sister is going abroad on holiday. This, temporary and occasional in principle, is extended indefinitely in time when the boy's mother is detained in another country and is exposed to a long prison sentence. Peter will have to consider whether his life is compatible with the education of a child or if you must choose between one thing and another.

Comment:

During the last two decades, homosexuality, while remaining a taboo in mainstream cinema, which for now only supports a few stereotypes like the funny side that accompanies the protagonist women's shopping or just being repressed accepted or accepted himself after of grim traumatic experiences, has become the protagonist of a series of independent films that go beyond these clichés and the film demands. Puppy

reflects the situation of many homosexuals who live in large cities, for their inclinations and not a tragedy or a drama and therefore they need not claim great causes but live their lives with a semblance of normality, which, however is more fragile than it seems: a time to take charge of his nephew Pedro lifestyle makes him vulnerable in the eyes of those who consider those who are not like them can not be considered normal .

However, it is true that the film, despite addressing the issue of child adoption by homosexual persons, not limited to the pamphlet, but that counts, not a great drama, but the small drama of a person sees his life altered by the presence of his nephew and you have to face legal problems, the family of the child and his complicated emotional situation with half French boyfriend comes to visit from time to time.

That's where the movie sins perhaps Manichaeism and lack of credibility in doing so idealized portrait of its protagonist. Peter combines perfectly too their revelry night by local gays with his career and his new job as accidental father. As in other tapes Albaladejo, you can see a misogyny so evident as opposed to a large extent to which we are accustomed to seeing: women are immature, possessive and somewhat hysterical, men have a strong emotional balance and a great hand with children. Peter has also been said that, despite his feelings about his French lover, does not want commitments, their emotional resilience is such that this relationship does not pose flashing any doubt or conflict, and it is not selfishness but know perfectly what is best for him and for everybody. Probably the intention of the script is not falling into the reactionary topical promiscuity present as a symbol of irresponsibility and results in all aspects of life, but maybe it will go out of hand in the other direction.

Finally, the film focuses on a branch of the gay world, the underworld of bears or bears , whereas in a smaller city and being gay is unusual enough in itself, in a large City sexual orientation is no longer an identity in itself so, like heterosexuals, gays are also obliged to find that identity forming their groups and clans around certain aesthetic, music and more. Embracing the aesthetics of bears, many men somewhat overweight and ugly from a conventional view individuals cease to be insipid and pass to flaunt and be proud of his physique and status; Puppy portrays this environment to bear great authenticity. Scenes

Highlights:

• Pedro visit a local environment, down to the stairs where the dark room and then begins to kiss with a stranger.

Bernardo
• The small rises unexpectedly at night, when entering the room of his uncle, is found tied to bed with a mask covering his face and another masked man dressed in leather front. The child has a panic attack and runs away.

Anecdotes:

• Some scenes from the movie were filmed at the famous Madrid's Chueca district, and in some places specializing in bears or bears .

• The film, which is relatively well known in the gay community and especially English in Madrid, received several awards, mainly in gay film festivals. Its protagonist achieved Goya nomination as Best Actor.

About the director:

Born in Alicante in 1966, Miguel Albaladejo is unknown to the general public, despite being a brilliant writer and a filmmaker more than correct. His only film with a certain impact was the film adaptation of the stories of famous children's literature character Manolito Gafotas (1999), created by her friend Elvira Lindo . His film has no great everyday stories with a good balance between comedy, drama and interest in emotions and their bond characters. Puppy is, so far, the only openly gay movie with explicit sex scenes.

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, a story about happiness: the quiet single

Happy-go-lucky . UK, 2008.

Director and Screenwriter: Mike Leigh

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman

Topics of interest: sexual freedom, promiscuity

Synopsis:

Poppy is a happy childhood education teacher who lives in a neighborhood near London. At 30 years does not seem to want to settle down, he likes to live with her best friend, Zoe, entertained with various activities, leaving the weekends partying and flirting in fun ways with all the guys you know, without any anxiety find the man of her life.

Comment:

As usual in the Mike Leigh film , Happy not have a closed frame or concrete, but rather a series of episodes in the life of Poppy : Flamenco classes, driving lessons, his work with young children, a visit to her pregnant sister, their weekend partying with her friends, her romance with her school teacher .... All these anecdotes are the picture of what in another era would have been called a liberated woman, modern or emancipated, and now should be a perfectly normal, but still rather exceptional in the film.

And it assumes that the way of life and being of Poppy, free, casual and carefree, that is what the original title of the film is acceptable in a girl of twenty years, but arrival thirties as a man as a woman, but much more the latter, mark other targets. P Oppy is a teacher, a relatively good job from the point of view of a English, but in the UK is about the profession considered worse and worse paid to which you can choose someone to study, but our friend enjoy with their work and not see him greater ambitions. And apply the same philosophy to his private life against unmarried neurotic, bitter, desperate and unable to live without a man to whom we are accustomed to film and television, Poppy enjoys her freedom, she likes flirting with men and begins a relationship with an attractive coworker. However, The girl lives this affair, we do not know if it will or will not continue, again with ease, without seeing in him a lifeline or show no fear of commitment.

Poppy the beginning of the film may seem crazy and infuriating. But as the narrative progresses, partly thanks to great work of the actress, we realize that it is an intelligent young man and his attitude is a vital choice that she makes so much more aware than it seems. Above all it is clear that being happy is a question of taking things with good humor and nonchalance.

Other characters in the film represent the conventional view of bourgeois society Poppy rebuking not find a partner, a better job, not being more competitive, and so on. His sister, who is very proud of herself for being married, pregnant and living in an elegant house with her husband, advertise the wonders of the conventional life to try to preach to the misguided family, but it's easy see that the true function of this speech is to convince herself and cover their own insecurity.

Similarly, the teacher of the driving school we are sensing throughout the film who is attracted by Poppy, eventually bursting and finally reproaching her flirt with men, although this character is right to say that she not so crazy but is fully aware of its appeal and its game, which is doing well no longer cling to the seriousness to make sense of a gray existence. The film, while far from didactic panfletarismo Ken Loach and a British social cinema look no labels of any kind, shows great respect for the freedom of the person and the right to pursue happiness each in its own way .

Top Scenes:

• reminds Zoe Poppy you can not please everyone. She replies that what is wrong with trying.

Anecdotes:

• Introduced in the Berlin Film Festival this year 2008 with great success, winning the award for Best Actress for Sally Hawkins. It is likely that when the season starts soon awards for best films of the year, pick a few candidates.

About the director:

Mike Leigh was born around 1943 and Manchester in the 70 starts in his career as writer and director in British film and television, failed international recognition to the 90. Belongs to school of British social realist cinema and, although not as well known as Ken Loach , is also the method of working with semi-professional actors and go on the script together with them, leaving them to build their character and dialogue and contribute their own ideas, resulting in quasi-experimental films without a specific argument but with a sense of great ease and credibility. His greatest success was achieved in 1995 with Secrets and Lies. The protagonists of his films are people working or middle class with very everyday problems.

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Wank To My Sister Normal?

Notes on a Scandal: friendship dangerous

Notes on a scandal. UK, 2006.

Director: Richard Eyre.

Screenwriter: Patrick Marber , drawing on a novel by Zoe Heller.

Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson.

Thematic interest: obsession, pedophilia, lesbianism.

Synopsis:

After spending years at home raising their children, Sheba Hart searches work as an art teacher in a school. There you have it a little hard to get respect from the young students, but it helps out Barbara, one of the most veteran teachers. The two sisters are best friends until one night Barbara discovers Sheba having sex with Steven, a student of only 15.

Comment:

The comments Barbara notes in her diary and reads us show off his approach to his workmate much younger as a deliberate plan to conquer. Is attracted to her and never referred to Sheba as a friend or show empathy, but analyzes it in terms similar to how a scientist talk about the guinea pig in an experiment. So we know from the outset that the friendship is really a stalking: Barbara Sheba acts like a pederast with a child. You win your trust gradually, through small favors concerned until his victim is held captive in the spider web he has woven. Taking advantage of the secrets entrusted to the person harassed, the harasser's used to wrap a moral blackmail, emotional and sexual finally.

Throughout the film we sense, and later confirmed, that Barbara had the same pattern with his "friend" earlier, he had to leave his job to get rid of it. The stalker, who is not even able to take to herself that she is a lesbian and that their interest in their victims is basically sexual, is not able to have a heart to heart relationship with another person: their way of relating is always abuse, all the other despotic request without offering sincere feeling really no return. The result is an enormous solitude interrupted occasionally by these abusive relationships that invariably end badly, with serious damages of any kind to his victims, and also frustrating for herself, which of course at all times considered the other as the only guilty of these failures.

But Sheba meets turn quite a few conditions that make it easy prey for a vampire as Barbara. Greatly immature, he married his young college professor, which implies that we always had a fragile personality that requested the support of someone older. The past year has been stuck at home looking after their children make it even more naive and helpless when faced with a job and real life problems. Therefore

credible to begin a relationship with one of his students, unlike Barbara, Sheba does not use strategies to seduce or dominate someone younger, but it is the Otherwise, their lack of personality and maturity are not known to be above and cut the flirtations of a teenager. Barbara succeeds in full to see the passion of his companion a simple bourgeois romantic fantasy about a boy poor victim of a difficult family situation and a great talent to be discovered, when the reality is that Steven, the boy, is a perfectly normal teenager also normal with a family without money problems and no significant talent Sheba not only carried away, but keeps the relationship on a completely unconscious, not knowing what you want or think about the serious risks that entails.

The film does a wonderful portrayal of two protagonists, played by two actresses. However, the voice of Barbara newspaper is an underscore that simplifies and reduces unhealthy friendship story about genre conventions rather trite thriller without giving the viewer the possibility to realize itself obsessive personality Barbara. Scenes

Highlights:

• Believing Steven needs to be reinforced to take the course forward and touched by her family drama course, Sheba agrees to stay alone with him after class and give private lessons. Steven is one of those hints for extra classes.

• Sheba is aimed at all hurry to see the role of the college of his son, who has been preparing for a long time. Barbara has suddenly shattered by the death of his cat and requires you to stay with her, Sheba refuses and threatens to expose his partner what he knows about his relationship with the teen.

Anecdotes:

• won four Oscar nominations: for the two protagonists (although Cate Blanchett competed in the supporting actress category), the script and soundtrack . He was also a finalist for other awards, including BAFTA and Golden Globe undoubtedly the work of the actresses was the most valued of the film.

• was presented at the 2007 Berlin festival, which achieved an audience award.
  

• Among gay communities were hostile to the film criticism on the grounds that the script identified lesbians with psychological imbalance. About

director:

Born in the county of Devon (England) in 1943, Richard Eyre has a prestigious curriculum as director of theater and television, including Laurence Olivier award for his productions theater. In film has not been lavished much, got his first hit internacional en 2001 con Iris y ha conseguido repetirlo con Diario de un escándalo . Ahora mismo tiene pendiente de estreno The other man , su debut en Hollywood.

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The Blue Angel: the bane of men

Der blaue Enge l. Alemania, 1930.

Director : Josef Von Sternberg

Guionistas: Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller y Robert Liebmann, basándose en la novela de Heinrich Mann.

Intérpretes: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings

Subjects of interest: discovery of sexuality

Synopsis:

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The severe teacher is alarmed to discover that their students attend in the evening a gambling den of dubious morality to hear sing Lola the showgirl. As he approached the local to scare young people go there, he can not avoid being lured to the charms of the singer.

Comment:

As is often the talk of old films, The Blue Angel is seen today, innocent and quite simple. But at the time strutting Marlene Dietrich wearing his underwear in the style of cabaret and women were something extremely shocking vulgar. Today it seems normal to see in the movies prostitutes, people who live on the street and all sorts of situations within the sordid environments in real life, but in 1930 the film was far more puritanical and this film was the most erotic you could imagine. In fact, the daughter of an era of relative permissiveness; few years later the censorship of Hollywood or other places and would not have consented. Professor Rath

appears to be a guardian of moral order and a man of convictions railways, but is not really a repressed that ignores what is life. When visiting the nightclub where Lola works to rescue their children from vice, has its first contact with the real world outside of books, his glaring weakness. Is captivated by the principles chicay all fall apart very quickly because they are based on reflection and experience, but only ignorance and prejudice. Their behavior shows that it is useless moralizing, Rath, in theory a great sage, is overwhelmed by the situation and has nothing to cling to the face for the first time in his life as a real conflict is to be loved.

What could have been a liberation, a conscious decision to break with a life that no longer fills, it is not because there is such a decision is dismissed from his job for his licentious behavior and start a new life working in the mobile world and Lola night because he does not no other choice. So do not start a second life, as seen in other films discussed in the blog, but a free fall.

Rath is a pathetic character and worthy of pity at his own stupidity and lack of resources to deal with life, but from a conservative viewpoint, which is chaired by the film and probably would prevail for the director and for viewers of the day, the blame for their misfortune is the femme fatale who has seduced. Lola is always displayed as an object of desire and a male fantasy about what you want, and also what they fear in a woman, the script does not develop as a character, never know what you think or feel or we see more than a stereotype. Marlene Dietrich is precisely one of the top representatives in their films under the orders of Josef von Sternberg, this concept of woman-fetish, as misogynistic as attractive. Scenes

Highlights:

certainly most famous sequence is Marlene Dietrich film showing her stockings and suspenders while singing Falling in love again , the star of his song repertoire.

Anecdotes:

• There are two versions of the film to be shot simultaneously, one in English and one in German, a usual practice in the early years of talkies. In the actors speak English with a heavy German accent.

• This is the first major production of sound films in Germany.
  

• This film launched Marlene Dietrich as a star and erotic myth, besides being the beginning of a long series of works joint between actress and director Josef Von Sternberg. About

director:

Josef Von Sternberg (Vienna 1894 - Hollywood 1969) was chosen to carry out The Blue Angel, the first major German sound film work, after the great success of his earlier silent film, The Last Command (1928). The rise to power of the Nazis made the decision to move to Hollywood with his muse and lover apparently Marlene Dietrich. They both carry out a series of films much appreciated by critics but which are too sophisticated for the American cinema of the time. Their insufficient blockbuster caused the decline of his career, which will continue to work much more routine. His fascination with the beauty and eroticism ambiguous Dietrich is evident in the six films they shot together.

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Married to: the second chance

Married to the mob. USA, 1988.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Screenwriters: Barry Strugatz and Mark R.

Burns Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl

Subjects of interest: sexual liberation

If synopsis:

Angela, the wife of a gangster, is not happy with your life. Not interested in socializing with other women in the mob or by giving them the luxury of obscure origin money her husband earns. When he sleeps with his boss's mistress is murdered and in retaliation, Angela begins to consider changing lives, especially when Tony is haunted by the head of her late husband, and his zealous wife Connie, who thinks both are lovers. Almost by stealth, Angela gives her house to charity and moved to a small apartment in New York with her son, without thinking that you will not be so easy to get rid of the mob or Mike, an FBI agent to investigate whether the remains is still connected with them.

Comment:

Angela is going through a crisis. 's really ambitious person who does not fill the role at all in the mafia world is reserved for women, she is isolated and causes rejection of the circle that surrounds it, as the gangsters , as I often say, are a family and she, as the title of the film (which is married to the mob, married to the mob in the original) is married to all of them, not only with her husband. So ambition is crushed and dormant for comfort, the dullness and overprotective of their role as bourgeois housewife. The death of her husband breaks the only link that holds it in this world and throws to make the difficult decision to start afresh, leaving your child with an elegant house in the suburbs, installed on a floor uncomfortable and having to find work and struggle with public transport and cons of the big city, in exchange for one big advantage: to be free at last.

Freedom however is not so easy and the past of Angela will pursue; the film deals with the difficulties of a person to develop independent living and a break above that will not be easily understood by most people who actually dreams of a life similar to that of which she is fleeing. Jonathan Demme raised this situation in two of the 80 films, Something Wild , which is a man who decides to leave his life of yuppie, and Married to the Mob on a homemaker. Breaking the traditional roles, the man in Something Wild is passive and is a woman who drives him out of a life in which I was unaware, until know, of being trapped. Here, however, the protagonist is active and she chooses and decides to change his life. Meet a man, yes, but that's not going to be the cause but the consequence of a decision to change that she has made for herself. Jonathan Demme men need women, but women can be self-sufficient, have, though, to dare to be.

Like many good comedies, Married to the Mob works because it has all this background that could give a good game in a dramatic film. But Demme opted for a very unorthodox sense of humor and a mood of celebration and hedonistic ranging from the grotesque, almost in line with Almodóvar or John Waters, and comedy romantic, as we are in a story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl. Mike, the attraction that follows FBI agent Angela, is a kind of Mortadelo which adopts the most colorful costumes and appears in the most unexpected places. Even the film's violent scenes have a cartoon festive tone that makes this film one of the most characteristic, along with Desperately Seeking Susan, light and jovial spirit of the new wave in the 80 . Married to the Mob is a celebration of life. Scenes

Highlights:

• Angela looking for work in a fancy fast food. When trying on the uniform, the local director of the spy through the eye of a giant chicken drawn on the wall. Realizing frightened out of place wearing a jacket grotesque lion tamer.
  

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• off the bus and Mike has to follow. Unable to walk out the door because the bus is packed with people, open a trap door and out the roof. Then you have to jump from car to car to reach the sidewalk. What is unique about this scene is recorded in a single plane and you can see that it is the Matthew Modine who rolls without specialists of any kind.

• After spending a wonderful evening of dinner and dancing, Angela invites Mike to his apartment. Mike begins to massage her feet, to Angela, obviously pleased with these appointments, he escapes comment was not so much a man touch me below the waist ... When you realize what you said, it rises sharply, pulling the cup you're drinking and try to wipe Mike clothes touches the genitals in a slip too "Freudian."

• Angela is arrested by the FBI, which threatens to remove your child if you do not cooperate and deport the immigrant who has been working. Disgusted, she does not hesitate to tell the federal act like the mafia. The inspector stopped the points of difference: the mafia works under the orders of maniacs and psychopaths and the FBI under the President of the United States. The first level of the agent somewhat grotesque takes the viewer to share the opinion of Angela: not much difference between the two.

Anecdotes:

• a locker in the U.S. reached 20 million dollars, double its budget.

• All actors got rave reviews. Especially Dean Stockwell, who won multiple awards and an Oscar nomination Best Supporting Actor.

• The end credits of the film are interesting to watch because they include deleted scenes in the editing room. About

director:

Jonathan Demme born in New York in 1944. His film career is as eclectic as erratic, his name begins to ring with a thriller, Last Embrace (1979) and a dramatic comedy about Hollywood, Melvin and Howard (1980). His two comedies of the 80 Something Wild and Married to the Mob two very unorthodox films that tell stories of liberation staff, call the attention of moviegoers. Having devoted and win the Oscar Silence of the Lambs (1991) , the excellent thriller that is a new abrupt change of style in his career, Demme away from Hollywood for several years, probably unhappy with the many changes the production takes place in their project on AIDS, who becomes the commercial and decaffeinated Philadelphia (1993). Since then he has lavished little and movies, less personal than the old, have yielded more discreet.

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All about my mother, naturally surreal

All About My Mother. Spain, 1999.

Director and Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Cecilia Roth , Antonia Sanjuan, Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

Subjects of interest: Transsexualism, machismo, lesbianism, prostitution

Synopsis:

Manuela loses her teenage son when he is hit by a car, just as he intended to reveal at last the boy his father's identity. The latter, which also know you have a child, changed his name years ago, Stephen, Lola and prostitute in Barcelona. Manuela goes there to tell the story, seeking to know the sister Lola Rosa, a young nun who distributed condoms among transvestites and hide an unexpected secret: Lola is expecting a child.

Comment:

After a series of films not very good results during the 90's, Almodóvar achieved with All about my mother than anyone expected: an international success and an even higher impact to those obtained with films of the past decade. It is true that this repeated itself largely in this film the outline of his masterpiece Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Both films are structured around a strong central female character who goes through a personal crisis that distract from the problems of other women that somehow you will be responsible.

These women Almodóvar as positive and able to help and be a guide for other women are emotionally vulnerable at the same time, so relationships have been unsatisfactory or even abusive. Lola, Manuela as has the worst of the worst a man and a woman, with women playing a very similar way as it did the lover who abandoned Pepa, the protagonist of Women on the Verge ... Interestingly, having become a woman he does not mitigate his conduct at all sexist and misogyny. Lola is an incarnation of evil and death (Manuela film says at the end of the appropriateness of being in a cemetery) that exorcised many ghosts while director normally present in his films, such as transsexuals, macho men that harm women, women with large breasts, paternity, etc.

Despite the stylized and unbelievable that it this character is precisely the great merit of film is told with all natural and simple a priori surreal plot and delirious transvestite pregnant nuns, theater divas lesbian girlfriends heroin users, truckers who operate and become prostitutes. Normal to live with all these situations because Almodóvar's expertise as a storyteller, that this film reaches its peak probably is what makes All About My Mother, without having to wear flags of any kind or give any explicit message, is all a plea for women, since men are completely secondary to the plot, and above all respect for diverse forms of life. One drawback

be blamed for the exaggerated postmodern director, who never hides his screenplay was inspired by other films, may cause some emotional disconnection in a drama that purports to be intense and torn. For example, the accident in which Manuela's son is killed while trying to get an autograph from his idol is directly copied, including its planning, Opening night, so the scene does not work emotionally, but only cinephile wink to the viewer who knows the John Cassavetes film . Likewise, in another point in the film a character reproaches Manuela is the same as Eve Harrington, the heroine of Eve, is a dialogue of the show himself a drag queen that of a female character drama.

Top Scenes:

• Manuela travels to Barcelona transvestites area looking for Lola. An overhead shot shows a huge, dangerous and quite gruesome scene of cars and high heels.

• The coincidence of Rosa, Huma Agrado and Manuela's apartment gives rise to a kind of party girls in the nun Rosa stating lets her hair down his fascination with cocks and nice finish counting trucker Human evolution a transsexual prostitute.

• private problems of Huma Rojo, the stage actress, and her lover Nina necessary to interrupt the function. Welcome offered to entertain the spectators who want to stay with a famous monologue that tells all operations that have allowed to become a woman.
  

Anecdotes:

• Its huge critical and commercial success of Almodovar's career up taking it to heights never reached so far by any English filmmaker. Among the major awards won by the film include the Oscar for best foreign film, the Goya for best film and director of the year and best director at Cannes, where he appeared before the press. Two and a half million viewers watched the film in Spain and nearly two million in France.

• The plot of the film is mainly borrowed elements Opening night, in which Gena Rowlands played an alcoholic diva drama that she appeared the ghost of a girl who had run over while trying to get his autograph, and Eva naked, about a helpful young man who tried to usurp the position of another star theater. The film's title is a paraphrase of All about Eve, the original title Eve. Almodóvar explicit these references at the end of the film, which focuses on all the actresses who have performed with other actresses in the movies, in addition to all mothers.
  

• Actress Antonia Sanjuan, who rose to popularity with the film playing Agrado, mate Lola profession, has always refused to confirm or deny the rumors about her transsexuality.
  

About the director:

Pedro Almodovar was born in Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) in 1949. He moved to Madrid in his youth to work at the phone company. In the ca pital begins to carry out in their spare time a series of shorts, a prelude to what will be his first film, Pepi Luci Bom and Other Girls Like , held very precarious means. Fast becoming one of the most emblematic of the so-called Madrid nightlife commercial success in Spain and the acceptance by foreign critics are not wait. From the beginning, sex is one of the key ingredients of Almodóvar film. Facing down the old myths of English machismo, the director fills his films gay, transvestites, sexually liberated and dominant, and Iberian males are ridiculed. This blend of social criticism and grotesque intended amaze and attract attention, while claiming personal and sexual freedom in a country emerging from a dictatorship and an era marked by religious taboos.

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Suddenly, Last Summer: repression and cannibalism

Suddenly, last summer . USA, 1959.

Director: Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

Screenwriters: Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams, based on the play of the second.

Cast: Montgomery Cliff, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn

Subjects of interest: male homosexuality, repression

Synopsis:

Benavle Violet, a woman mature and wealthy, offers a generous grant the psychiatric doctor who works Cukrowicz. The doctor naturally tries to please the lady, but soon discover that their support is not disinterested: in return you who enters his niece Catherine and have performed a lobotomy.

Comment:

Benavle Violet is a typical character of Tennessee Williams : rich, decadent, psychology convoluted and strongly repressed erotic tension in this case, incestuous, which is translates into an unhealthy relationship with his only son. Seb asti, the absent protagonist whose death revolves around the work was accompanied by her mother everywhere Violet hates his niece because he broke the idyllic relationship between them and the first step to fill the position of the mother, for one reason also very hard for the pride of the mistress, Sebastian wanted a attractive young woman at his side for a reason to be sensing along the length and only made explicit at the end.

Catharine not only has the youth and beauty Violet no longer holds and usurps the privileged official companion as Sebastian, but also a humble young man whose manners plain its aristocratic aunt despises. The youth has not been taught to repress their sexuality and emotions, has the same erotic drive her aunt but she leaves emerge. His hysterical behavior, which has triggered the trauma of death unclear Sebastian, has led to a psychiatric doctor Cukrowicz the character who represents the point of view of the viewer to witness this family drama, decide whether is beneficial to it or if it is a way to suppress and silence a young maverick secrets that should not come to light. It is possible that Williams was inspired to this story in the famous real case of actress Frances Farmer , hospitalized a few years lobotomized antes por motivos no muy claros.

La película, altamente teatral y basada en la construcción de una atmósfera malsana y opresiva por medio del diálogo y el primer plano, nos va conduciendo hacia un climax final en el que se desvelará el secreto familiar inaceptable para Violet. SPOILER: resulta un tanto anacrónico en la actualidad que el conflicto central de la obra resulte ser que la madre no acepte la atracción de su hijo por los hombres y la convierta en algo que debe ser silenciado a toda costa, pero hasta hace muy poco tiempo esta era la realidad que rodeaba a la homosexualidad. Fiel a la visión que se tenía de este tema en la época, el guión be associated with promiscuity gay social maladjustment, Oedipal relationship with the mother, corruption of minors in the third world beaches (which is considered to Spain in the movie), violence and other sordid aspects. Even giving rough and moral vision that we had already seen when discussing Slander, the subject was considered too daring for the censorship of the time, although very briefly. Cinema and society in 1959 were about to leave to close our eyes to a reality that could not hide any longer, as indeed announces this film that just the truth coming out.

Top Scenes:

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• presented to the doctor to the star of your garden, which is nothing but a carnivorous plant, while a metaphor for the trap is lending and anticipatory of the nuances of the history of cannibals Sebastian.

• SPOILER: Catherine finally dares to talk about the traumatic experience last summer. Sebastian was lynched by a group of kids who kill after devoured part of his body.

Anecdotes:

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• a very serious accident automovístico during the time of filming, had part of his face paralyzed and needed to take strong medications for the pain, which is noted in his speech on the screen. Their presence in the film was due to the insistence and support of the actresses, who ended up very angry about the contemptuous attitude of the director and producer to him. It is said that Katharine Hepburn was a spit in the face at the end of filming.

• The English translation of the title lends a bit confusing , the English title does not mean suddenly came last summer, which is what evokes the English name but a way of introducing the memories of Catharine: Suddenly, last summer ... (Suddenly, last summer ...).

• Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor are competing for the Oscar for best actress that year. The film received another nomination for his artistic direction.

• references to homosexuality, forbidden by the Hays Code censorship, caused some controversy at the premiere, but was becoming increasingly clear that it was outdated and obsolete and the code. Surprising that the film got released in Franco's Spain, not only because of its subject rugged, but the image so primitive that occurs in our country in history.

About the director:

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (Pennsylvania 1909 - New York 1993) is one of the biggest names in classic Hollywood. He began in film making translations of German films and still very young produced hits like Philadelphia Stories. His jump to the address would occur some years later, a field that won the Oscar and a huge recognition Eve. Other titles are his most remembered Letter to Three Wives, The Barefoot Contessa or footprint. He worked at a time when sexual references were virtually banned in commercial cinema, so Suddenly, Last Summer is the title riskier and develops the most erotic themes.

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'm curious erotic socialism

Jag är nyfiken . Sweden, 1967-68.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman

Cast: Lena Nyman , Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt

Subjects interest: sexual freedom, free love

Synopsis:

Lena, a young idealistic military in various causes and ask the Swedes their views on various social and sexual. Your erotic and emotional life is divided between Vilgot, the director who filmed his activities as a militant, and a man father a child.

Comment:

The mixture of reality and fiction resolved I'm curious as current, as would twenty years later Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami , Vilgot Sjöman constructs a fictional film which deals with the filming of a documentary about Swedish society and gender. There is no writer credited as probably the actors, who play themselves, including the director himself, taking an active part at least, the design of characters we can not know to what extent are they or not. Lena Presumably, the main character develops in real life activity report of inequalities and defense of feminism and social and sexual freedom that we see carried out during the film. It is also assumed that she and the director are a couple open like you see on the screen.

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the blog I talked about love Survey, a documentary Pasolini very similar in gathering opinions from ordinary people about sexual issues, but I'm curious metalinguistic provides a much bolder game and leaves completely hand, the supposed neutrality of Pasolini's film (supposedly only because the director makes clear his views on the issues involved) and assumes that this is a film of denunciation and a whole political manifesto raises interesting questions as for example if the emerging Swedish tourism in Spain during the English helps or if he is a complicity with the Franco dictatorship.

View today, is also a very educational film about the 60's, the counterculture and the questioning of many values \u200b\u200bthat until then, and, unfortunately, today, considered and are considered immovable. By then it was assumed not as is done now that the company would always be unequal, but that for years made a major effort to lessen the gap between rich and poor, and the rebellious spirit was also applied to sexuality . As a legacy of those years, homosexuality (which also explores Lena maintaining relations with a girl), masturbation or female sexual desire is no longer a deviations to travel to see, at least in the developed world, with some normality. However, on other issues, as a concept of partnership based on intellectual and emotional links, not only or necessarily on sexual fidelity, I'm curious is today, perhaps more than ever, a very daring film for raising the sexual learning a girl who has relationships with two men at once, without their owners consider it to be her lovers, a behavior that can only be considered anachronistic today.

Top Scenes: Lena

• question several passersby about social class differences in Sweden, if the Swedish society is class or not, one respondent replied: if you are naked there is no class distinctions; dressed people and you have a class society .

• She and a companion decided to rob a church membership and deal with the bishop, who shed his robe and underwear left in a kind of performance.

Anecdotes:

• produced an extraordinary controversy in its international release, especially in the U.S., where he be kidnapped by the censorship and could not adopted later debut a judicial sentence. Was considered pornographic in their day and the director reads the second part of the film insults and threats contained in letters received by viewers outraged after seeing the first chapter.

• In Spain, due to his criticism of the Franco regime, could not be released until 1978, after the death of the dictator.

• The film is divided into two parts with the names of the two colors of the Swedish flag: and I Am Curious Blue I Am Curious Yellow , which was released in its day separately and are now published in video in the same way.
  

About
director:

Vilgot Sjöman (1924 - 2006) was born into a working class family in Stockholm, after getting a scholarship, he studied film in the U.S. and start a career as writer and director. During the 60's and 70's, after working with the leading Swedish film of the era, Ingmar Bergman in Winter Light, conducted a series of movies with provocative themes such as incest, homosexuality and rape, culminating in the most successful international scandal, I'm curious . Later, his films gradually leave premiered Sjöman abroad and focused on work for Swedish television.

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My Life in Pink: Child's Play

Ma vie en rose. Belgium, 1997.

Director: Alain Berliner

Screenwriters: Alain Berliner, Chris Vander Stappen

Cast: Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent, Georges Du Fresne

Subjects of interest: transsexualism

Synopsis:

Ludovic

is seven years old and likes to wear women's clothes. His parents are disturbing when what they consider a game seems to be more serious for the boy, who speaks of becoming a woman when she is older and married with another child in the neighborhood. The extravaganza will start small to cause problems for him and all his family.

Comment:

If issues such as homosexuality and transsexuality are controversial in itself, let alone when it comes to minors. Sexual life does not legally exist before 18 years and still enduring the idea that any information we are given to children about sexuality amounts to a propaganda that can alter sexual orientation even smaller. In the same way is not as natural for a child to ask questions about their sexual identity; Ludovic is a seven year old absolutely convinced that it is a girl and her male genitalia are just the result of an error dreams which can be easily repaired later in life. Many transsexuals report that very young always felt the opposite sex, however, tend to filter all childhood memories and make them more or less relevant in terms of who we are or we believe when we get to adulthood, as well until recently only admitted when I was transsexual accompanied by a surgical operation was required to recognize its status as transsexual to respond to this profile have always felt in the wrong body, so many transsexuals may say what is expected of them, maybe not exactly answer the truth about what they thought and felt in its infancy.

If it is rather difficult to know if in reality cases such as the film shows children claiming to be clear that women at a young age is even more complicated to interpret this properly. Is the child going through a temporary phase of confusion or actually be a transsexual in adult life? In fact the opposite case, a girl who for a time would prefer to dress in baby clothes and not feel very happy with her sex, much less be a source of worry for their parents, would not automatically assume that the child is lesbian or transgender, while a male any deviation from the role assigned to her sex is considered a symptom of homosexual or transsexual.

The great success of the film is alternate lights and shadows, not to raise an idyllic and unreal situation in which being different does not involve any problem nor carry the excess ink showing the lives of those who are different as a succession of calamities and suffering without hope is possible, as the recently released film XXY . Ludovic's parents are neither heroes nor monsters, the rest of its surroundings, a bourgeois, conservative district, is acting more Manichean as hypocritical and repressive. In fact, when the custom of dressing little woman causes her expulsion from school, the film does not clarify whether this is a public or private school of a religious nature. In the first case, this discrimination would not be credible.

Another strength of Ma vie en rose is that it shows that they are adults who cause children to see or perceive others themselves as different and reject these differences. What for small game is just a cause celebre for the elderly; their children will soon imitate their behavior and be intolerant.



Top Scenes:

• face their problems in front of an environment that does not understand and I wish he were otherwise, Ludovic takes refuge in his imagination, that her favorite doll, Pam comes to life and helps you become the woman he wants to be.

Anecdotes:

• was a success critics and won many prizes in festivals as well as European film award for best screenplay, nominated for a Cesar for best first feature (since it is a co-production with France), the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film English and, the icing, the Golden Globe in the same category.

• The original title Ma vie en rose, is a paraphrase of La vie en rose, the famous song by Edith Piaf . And English, also in French, this title has a double meaning: sweet my life or my life as a homosexual . My life pink is also the title of a pop song by The Romeos English.
  

About the director:

Alain Berliner was born in Brussels in 1963. After a couple of short films, his directing debut long occurs My Life in Pink, a degree of international impact. The following year failed to repeat the same success with The wall, a parable about the political problems of his country. His last film was released among us Passion of Mind, starring Demi Moore . He has also worked as a screenwriter and occasional producer in films and television series.

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