Plot
The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 5.8/10 (1,372 voted)
Director:
Bigas Luna
Stars: Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, María Barranco
Storyline The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.
Writers: Bigas Luna, Almudena Grandes
Cast: Francesca Neri
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Lulú
Óscar Ladoire
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Pablo
(as Oscar Ladoire)
María Barranco
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Ely
Fernando Guillén Cuervo
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Marcelo
Rosana Pastor
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Chelo
Javier Bardem
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Jimmy
Juan Graell
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Remy
Rodrigo Valverde
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Pablito
Pilar Bardem
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Encarna
Marta May
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Madre de Lulú
Gloria Rodriquez
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Cristina
(as Gloria Rodríguez)
Àngel Jové
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Alicantino
(as Angel Jové)
Ainara Pérez
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Lulú niña
Juan Sala
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Padre de Lulú
Pepa Serrano
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Flamenca
Release Date: 13 December 1990
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Ángela Molina pulled out just 10 days before the filming started. She and her sister Mónica Molina were going to play Lulú in her different life stages.
Quotes: Lulú:
I never meant to get into incest.
User Review
One woman's desires
Rating: 7/10
This early (1990) major feature from Bigas Luna is the one which – not
surprisingly – got him noticed.
It is an uncompromising study of sexuality, exploring desires which most
directors would shy away from – on and probably off the
camera.
Italian actress Francesca Neri plays the lead character. It's an erotic,
uninhibited performance, taking Lulu from an innocent virgin with a crush
on
her brother's friend to a woman so desperate for carnal gratification that
she trawls bars looking for men with which to have three-way
sex.
For some, the film's frankness – masturbation, homosexual sex and
cunnilingus – and exploration of everything from transsexual sex to incest
might bring it close to pornography.
But it is refreshing to see these challenging areas of sex dealt with by a
competent director and good cast of actors.
It hints at the themes which would run through Luna's later work, such as
Jamon, Jamon and Golden Balls but without the quirky humour of those
films.
Slightly exhausting, perhaps taking on too much of the dark side of
sexuality.
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