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Laurent (Alain Chabat), a real estate dealer, cheats on his wife Loli (Victoria Abril) but insists--men are such romantics--that she is ever faithful to him. As his mistress replies wearily, "That's probably what my husband says to his mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs...
...film opens in Spain in 1931, as the monarchy is about to collapse. Fernando (Jorge Sanz, last seen literally engaging in hanky-panky with Victoria Abril in "Lovers"), a young and ripely handsome soldier, ex-seminarian and cook par excellence, deserts from the army and wanders around the countryside. He runs into Don Manolo, a witty and iconoclastic old painter played by the venerable Fernando Fernan Gomez...
Becky, the mom (Marisa Paredes) in HIGH HEELS, is a star of the Hispanic stage and screen. Rebecca, the daughter (Victoria Abril), is a sulky Cinderella who has always felt herself the ignored victim of celebrity. As a child, she took the slights hard, switching uppers for downers in her stepfather's medicine bottles, just prior to his demise. Now in her late 20s, Rebecca is still mom- crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years...
...Otelo ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976 and again four years later. But last week, after a 19-month trial, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "undermining" the government. The court ruled that an organization Otelo founded was a front for the Forcas Populares 25 de Abril, the shadowy terrorist group responsible for a wave of assassinations and bombings since 1980. Forty-seven co-defendants were also convicted. Protesting his innocence, Otelo insisted, "History will absolve...
Every spring the siren calls to travel are very much the same--Oh, to be in England, now that April's there, or at the bullfights at the feria de abril in Seville--yet new attractions keep appearing too. This year there is an extra boon in foreign travel: the strong dollar. American currency now buys about a third more abroad than it did four years ago and 13% more than just a year ago. That makes a bargain out of everything from nights on the town in Paris to jewelry shopping in the Far East...