The Virgin of Lust

The Virgin of Lust
Spanish theatrical release poster
Spanish	La virgen de la lujuria
Directed by	Arturo Ripstein
Screenplay by	Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Based on	La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco by Max Aub
Produced by	Mate Cantero Álvaro Garnica Luisa Matienzo Stéphane Sorlat
Starring	Ariadna Gil Luis Felipe Tovar Juan Diego Julián Pastor Patricia Reyes Spíndola Daniel Giménez Cacho Carlos Chávez Alberto Estrella
Cinematography	Esteban de Llaca
Edited by	Fernando Pardo
Music by	Leoncio Lara
Production companies	Mate Production Tusitala PC Iberautor Promociones Culturales Producciones Amaranta Fado Filmes Foprocine
Distributed by	Lauren Films (es)
Release dates	30 August 2002 (2002-08-30)(Venice) 6 September 2002 (2002-09-06)(Spain)
Running time	2h 31min
Countries	Spain Mexico Portugal
Language	Spanish

The Virgin of Lust (Spanish: La virgen de la lujuria) is a 2002 Spanish-Mexican-Portuguese drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein from a screenplay by Paz Alicia Garciadiego. It is loosely based on Max Aub's story La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (1960). ^[1]

Plot

The film is set in Mexico in the 1940s. Nacho works for tyrannical racist Don Lázaro in the Café Ofelia. He falls in love with Spanish prostitute Lola. ^[2]

Cast

• Luis Felipe Tovar as Nacho Jurado ^[3]
• Ariadna Gil as Lola ^[3]
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Raquel ^[2]
• Juan Diego as Gimeno-Mikado ^[3]
• Julián Pastor as Don Lázaro ^[2]
• Alberto Estrella as Gardenia Wilson ^[2]
• Daniel Giménez Cacho as Toledano ^[3]

Release

Distributed by Lauren Films, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 6 September 2002. ^[4]

Reception

Deborah Young of Variety considered that patient viewers are rewarded by "a memorable vision of sexual obsession as an everyday matter, paralleled to the devastation wreaked by great movements of history and politics". ^[2]

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered the film to be "a magnificent direct hit of surreal cinema between the eyes that fascinates and, unfortunately, also makes you dizzy". ^[5]

Awards

• Fipreci Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (2002) ^[6]

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2002

References

1. Sánchez Zapatero, Javier (2012). "Estrategias de adaptación de un relato del exilio republicano español: de La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (Max Aub, 1960) a La virgen de la lujuria (Arturo Ripstein, 2002)". In Rodríguez Pérez, María Pilar (ed.). Exilio y cine. Bilbao: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Deusto. p. 234. ISBN   978-84-9830-364-3.
2. Young, Deborah (2002-09-13). "The Virgin of Lust". Variety . Retrieved 2017-12-03.
3. Riambau, Esteve (29 May 2008). "La virgen de la lujuria". Fotogramas .
4. "La virgen de la lujuria · España-Portugal-México 2002" . Retrieved 11 June 2023.
5. Fernández-Santos, Ángel (5 September 2002). "Cumbre coja". El País .
6. "Fipresci Prize". Fipresci . Retrieved 2017-12-03.

External links

• The Virgin of Lust at IMDb
• The Virgin of Lust at ICAA's Catálogo de Cinespañol