Kiss the spider woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kiss the spider woman |
| Original title | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Country of production | United States , Brazil |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hector Babenco |
| script | Leonard Schrader |
| production | David Weisman |
| music |
Nando Cordeiro , John Neschling |
| camera | Rodolfo Sánchez |
| cut | Mauro Alice |
| occupation | |
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (alternatively: The Kiss of the Spider Woman ; Original title: Kiss of the Spider Woman , O Beijo da Mulher Aranha ) is an American - Brazilian drama directed by Héctor Babenco from 1985 . Leonard Schrader wrote the script based on the novel The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig from 1976.
action
Political prisoner Valentin Arregui and homosexual , accused of child abuse , Luis Molina share a cell in a prison in Brazil in the 1970s (in contrast to the original book in which the prison in Argentina is located). Molina tells his cellmate the plot of old films, especially a German propaganda film from the Nazi era in which Leni Lamaison and an officer appear. Arregui tells about Marta, with whom he was once deeply in love, and about his activities as a revolutionary.
Molina has an agreement with the secret police that he should spy on Arregui. However, he falls in love with Arregui and remains silent. When Arregui becomes ill in prison from deliberately poisoned food, Molina takes care of him. Arregui finally thanks them with a common last night before Molina's release from prison.
After his release, Molina contacts Arregui's revolutionary friends and dies when they are trapped by the security forces. The secret police throw his body on a littered property. Meanwhile, Arregui is tortured and then taken to the prison hospital. A compassionate doctor gives him an injection of morphine against the pain and he sinks into a dream in which Marta comes to him, takes him by the hand and takes him out of prison. The two get into a boat on the beach and row out to sea together.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 9, 1985 that the film tells one of those rare stories in which one thing seems to be happening and another really does happen. The film begins with an argument between two different personalities and develops into a choice between attitudes towards life. The choice, however, is not of a sexual nature, but of freedom and slavery. The representations are "wonderful".
Bob Graham described the film in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 27, 2001 on the occasion of its re-screenings as a " gay version of Casablanca ". The film caused a stir in 1985, mainly because of its political statements. It can currently be viewed as a "good melodrama". Some of the lines of dialogue spoken by William Hurt would cliché correspond to a simple man, but the character played by Hurt is not a complex personality either. Arregui's political statements are also clichéd, but Arregui's character can simply be like that, because that corresponds to him.
Awards
William Hurt won in 1986 as best actor of the Oscar . David Weisman for Best Film , Héctor Babenco for Best Director and Leonard Schrader for Best Adapted Screenplay were nominated for an Oscar. The film for Best Drama , William Hurt, Raúl Juliá and Sonia Braga were nominated for the 1986 Golden Globe Award . William Hurt won the BAFTA Award in 1986 .
William Hurt won a prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1985 , and Héctor Babenco was nominated for the Palme d' Or. William Hurt won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in 1985 , the David di Donatello in 1986 and the London Critics Circle Film Award in 1987 . The film won the Seattle International Film Festival's Golden Space Needle Award in 1985 and the Independent Spirit Award in a special category in 1986 . Héctor Babenco won a special award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985 .
background
The film was shot in São Paulo . It grossed approximately $ 4.95 million in US cinemas . In Germany there were over 365,000 cinema viewers.
literature
- Stefan Preis: Kiss of the spider woman. The cinematic reappraisal of dictatorships in South America . Interfilm Academy Munich 2015
Web links
- Kiss of the Spider Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kiss of the spider woman at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
- ^ Review by Bob Graham. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
- ^ Filming locations for Kiss of the Spider Woman, accessed August 1, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Kiss of the Spider Woman. Retrieved August 1, 2007.