Labyrinth of Passions
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Labyrinth of Passions |
| Original title | Laberinto de pasiones |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production | Pedro Almodovar |
| music |
Bernardo Bonezzi Fabio McNamara |
| camera | Ángel Luis Fernández |
| cut |
Miguel Fernández Pablo Pérez Mínguez José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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Labyrinth of Passions is a 1982 comedy film directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Almodóvar also wrote the screenplay.
action
Riza, the homosexual son of the exiled ruler of Tiran, lives anonymously in Madrid, where he is not only wanted by an Islamist group around Sadec, who is endowed with an excellent sense of smell, but also by his stepmother Toraya. After a treatment by the well-known reproductive medicine doctor Doctor de la Peña, this is fertile for the first time in her life and seeks sperm from the ruling house.
By chance, Riza becomes a singer in a band and on his first appearance meets Sexilia, the nymphomaniac and sunlight-shy daughter of Doctor de la Peña, who in turn is a member of a music group and is being treated by the psychologist Susana, who is less likely to be Sexilia than more whose father is interested. Riza and Sexilia fall in love and, together with the band members, flee from the Islamists and Toraya on a scheduled plane to the tropical island of Contadora, where Riza's family lives in exile. Since the Islamists were unsuccessful with Riza, they abduct Toraya without further ado. The role of Sexilia is taken by Queti, the daughter of the cleaning owner, to whom Sexilia gives her clothes.
reception
For the film service, Labyrinth of Passions is a "shrill, over-the-top comedy from the homosexual and rock milieu, which, despite some borrowings from Andy Warhol and John Waters, is mostly a flat to silly violation of taboos". For the magazine prisma , the film is “a violent to relentless screwball comedy with rough packaging” and “great fun, but certainly not to everyone's taste”. “Bright and anarchic” Almodóvar provides “in an extremely enjoyable way a colorful document of the awakening of the Spanish cultural movement after Franco's death, which after decades of adaptation and oppression broke all boundaries of bourgeois morality, customs and taboos and thus loudly made a place for itself in the public consciousness secured ".
Awards
Imanol Arias and Marta Fernández Muro were each nominated for the Fotogramas de Plata in 1983 .
background
Labyrinth of Passions was the first collaboration between Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar. The film was shot in Madrid. Almodóvar has a brief cameo , his brother Agustin a minor supporting role.
Web links
- Labyrinth of Passion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Labyrinth of Passion at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Labyrinth of Passions in the Lexicon of International Films, accessed on January 14, 2008
- ↑ Labyrinth of Passions on prisma-online.de , accessed on January 14, 2008
- ↑ Labyrinth of Passions Awards on imdb.com , accessed January 14, 2008
- ^ Antonio Banderas on imdb.com , accessed January 14, 2008
- ↑ Filming locations for Labyrinth of Passions on imdb.com , accessed January 14, 2008
- ^ Full cast of Labyrinth of Passions on imdb.com , accessed January 14, 2008