Lulu - The story of a woman

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Movie
German title Lulu - The story of a woman
Original title Las edades de Lulú
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1990
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Bigas Luna
script Bigas Luna,
Almudena Grandes
production Andrés Vicente Gómez
music Carlos Segarra
camera Fernando Arribas
cut Pablo González del Amo
occupation

The erotic drama Lulu - The Story of a Woman from 1990 is a typical work by the Spanish film director Bigas Luna . The film drama was based on the novel (1989) by the writer Almudena Grandes , which was sold in large numbers in Spain. The book satisfied the erotic pent-up demand of the Spanish after the end of the Francoist censorship, when a large amount of erotic literature appeared in the country.

The thin narrative thread follows the young Lulú in her sexual awakenings from the intimate shave to anal intercourse, a threesome with a transvestite and then a gay group to a sadomasochistic orgy. In between she marries Pablo and has a daughter with him. The pictures, it was said in a review, are close to the limit of pornographic film.

criticism

Criticism admitted the film that it was well photographed, dosed and daring, between men's magazine and soft porn, even a "milestone in the history of eroticism in the cinema, also because of its twitching veracity and the devotion of the actors" . But she also unanimously stated that the film offers hardly any originality and that it soon becomes boring, since everything has been seen many times. The narrative is unfocused and a clear topic is missing.

epd Film judged Lulu : “The erotic film is one of the most difficult genres and unmistakably proves the qualities of the filmmaker. (...) Lulú gives cause for these remarks because the difficulties of the genre become clear in an exemplary way. ” The Fischer Film Almanach spoke of an uninspired soft porno with a kitschy ending. The only bright spot is the main actress Francesca Neri. The lexicon of international films said: "A film staged for commercial purposes that makes no distinction between erotic tenderness and libidinal pleasure and is unable to fathom the fundamental problem of the novel adaptation."

publication

After the film opened in Germany on June 6, 1991, it was seen by 177,610 cinema-goers. It had its pay-TV broadcast on January 15, 1993 on PREMIERE .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Revue du cinéma, No. 474, September 1991, Paris, p. 25
  2. ↑ a b epd film no. 6/1991, joint work of Protestant journalism, Frankfurt a. M., p. 35
  3. ↑ a b Positif No. 367, September 1991, Paris, p. 52
  4. ^ Fischer Film Almanach 1992, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11198-6 , p. 230
  5. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1991 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 15, 2011

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