The Torremolinos home videos
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Torremolinos home videos |
| Original title | Torremolinos 73 |
| Country of production | Spain , Denmark |
| original language | Spanish , Danish |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pablo Berger |
| script | Pablo Berger |
| production |
Tomás Cimadevilla Mohamed Khashoggi Bo Ehrhardt Lars Bredo |
| music | Nacho Mastretta |
| camera | Kiko de la Rica |
| cut | Rori Sáinz de Rozas |
| occupation | |
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Torremolinos Homevideos is a Spanish-Danish co-production comedy film from 2003. It was directed by Pablo Berger , who also wrote the screenplay for his feature film debut.
action
The unsuccessful encyclopedia representative Alfredo and his wife Carmen receive an offer from his employer Don Carlos to make alleged Super 8 educational films about the sexual behavior of the Spaniards for the Scandinavian audience. Since the two are in financial difficulties, they accept the offer and Carmen unknowingly becomes a film star in the buyer countries.
The couple's financial situation improves significantly due to the success of the films he has shot. While Alfredo improves his film technical skills and discovers his true calling as a filmmaker, Carmen wants to realize her long-cherished dream of having children, but finds out that her husband is unable to father children.
Inspired by his financial success, Alfredo wrote an Ingmar Bergman- inspired screenplay for a film called Torremolinos 73 . He shows it to his boss and manages to get him to direct and Carmen to take on the female lead. While filming in the seaside resort of Torremolinos , Alfredo only realizes late that the film is taking a different direction than he intended. At the end of the film there is a sex scene with Carmen and the Danish leading actor Magnus, which Alfredo had not planned. The final scene, which takes place a few years later, shows that Alfredo and Carmen have a daughter and that Alfredo is a wedding filmmaker. A voice from the off explains that Torremolinos 73 , which remained Alfredo's only feature film, had few viewers in Spain, while it was very successful in Scandinavia under a different, sex-oriented title.
reception
The film service describes the Torremolinos home videos as a “turbulent, exquisitely played and staged comedy that scratches the taboos of the time” and “creates the tragicomic characters in the balancing act between economic pleasure and moral doubt”. For prisma-online, “the 'sexual liberation' in Puritan Spain of the 1970s is skilfully thematized”.
Awards
The Torremolinos Home Videos was established in 2004 ascribed to four Goya nominations (best main and supporting actor and best new director and best original screenplay), but failed to win the award.
background
The film contains various references to the film classics The Last Tango in Paris and The Seventh Seal . Some excerpts from the latter are also shown. The film premiered on April 26, 2003 at the Málaga Film Festival . It was released on DVD in German-speaking countries on October 26, 2006.
Web links
- The Torremolinos home videos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Torremolinos 73 on prisma-online.de , accessed on November 26, 2008
- ↑ a b The Torremolinos Home Videos in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Awards for Torremolinos 73 on imdb.com , accessed November 24, 2010
- ↑ a b References to other titles for Torremolinos 73 on imdb.com , accessed November 26, 2008
- ↑ Start dates for Torremolinos 73 on imdb.com , accessed on November 26, 2008