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DVD : Torremolinos 73In association with Amazon.comstarring: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Fernando Tejero, Mads Mikkelsen directed by: Pablo Berger  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0720229912006 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 21, 2006 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Sales Rank: 74929 MPN: D912006D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: The sexual revolution meets a bumbling door-to-door salesman and his beautician wife in the form of "educational" sex films in this satiric comedy, set in Spain in 1973. Alfredo Lopez (Javier Cámara) is an encyclopedia salesman whose work has not been going especially well lately, which is worrisome to his wife, Carmen (Candela Peña), who is eager to have a baby. As it happens, encyclopedia sales have been dismal overall, and publisher Don Carlos (Juan Diego) strikes upon an idea for a more lucrative product line -- an "audiovisual encyclopedia of human reproduction," consisting of 8 mm movies demonstrating different ways for couples to make love. Don Carlos sets up a meeting between his sales staff and Dennis (Thomas Bo Larsen), a pornographer from Denmark who likes to tell people he once worked with Ingmar Bergman. While most of the salesmen refuse to have anything to do with Don Carlos' new scheme -- especially since pornography is strictly illegal under the Franco regime -- Alfredo grudgingly goes along, and despite his misgivings Carmen is drafted to star in the first film in the series. As the films become an underground success in Spain and earns a more high-profile reputation in Denmark, Carmen is recognized in public as a glamorous porn star, and Alfredo deludes himself into believing he and Dennis are making art films. But Alfredo's ambitions get the better of him when he begins writing a screenplay for a serious feature film and Carmen becomes increasingly obsessed with having a child. Special Features: o Alternative Footage o Biographies o Deleted Scenes o Filmographies o Interactive Menu o Making Of o Music Video o Photo Gallery o Scene Access o Trailer(s) Average Rating:
 Rating: - Sorry this is only for the broadminded Pablo Berger's debut feature film, Torremolinos 73, is something of a curiosity, combining Spanish with Scandinavian sensibilities. Set in Franco's Spain of the early `70s, the plot revolves around an unexceptional couple Alfredo (Javier Camara, Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)) and Carmen Lopez (Candela Pena, All About My Mother). Alfredo is an door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, but isn't selling much of anything. Since he is paid on commission, he is behind on his bills and can't afford the child ... Read More Rating: - Completely Unique. Both satirical and tragic, Torremolinos 73 has considerable entertainment value while also raising important questions about what it means to be a man in our modern era. Without giving any of the plot away, Alfredo has to make a rather odd choice at the end of the film; the type of choice which would not easily be made many years ago. In my estimation, the ending will definitely affect most of the men who see it which is an independent indicator of its being well done. Torremolinos 73 also captures ... Read More Rating: - Casablanca Test ApprovedSet in early 1970s Spain, this buoyantly wry film begins with doors closing in paradise, proceeds to matters of the flesh, and culminates in a deal with the devil. Then, heretically, tops the whole thing off with proof of a living, breathing, man-made golden miracle. The paradise is the MY PARADISE Apartments where, as the film opens, door after door is being shut in the face of a bowed but stoically undaunted encyclopedia salesman named Alfredo Lopez (Camara). He owes three months rent, ... Read More Rating:  - Saw it at the Miami Film Festival 2004Absolutly loved this movie! If you like foreign films I higly recommend you see this. It's a very funny and original film that I got to see in the Miami Film Fest of 2004 and was by far the best movie I saw in the festival. The director Pablo Berger was also there and conducted a great Q&A session at the end of the film. Again, highly recommended! Rating:  - Decent comedy, that is really more sad.This is a comedy about a couple who are struggling to make ends meet. The husband is an encyclepedia salesman and the company is downsizing the salesmen, but they offer an alternative. A foreign company wants to make a video encyclepedia of sex and they'll use the personal tapes of these former salesmen as examples of Spanish mating rituals. It doesn't take much to figure out that they're being contracted to make porn for foreign markets, but they decide to do it since the money is good and they wouldn't ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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