BETWEEN YOUR LEGS
hiszpański film na DVD (Nucleus FIlms)
reż. ‎ Manuel Gómez Pereira 2005
film w j. hiszpańskim,
dostępne napisy w j. angielskim
występują m. in.: ‎ Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Juan Diego, Sergi López

This is one of those films that is very hard to rate, but as a thriller it is truly superb. Bringing together Victoria Abril and Javier Bardem, seen briefly in the same frame in High Heels from the beginning of the 90s, Manuel Gomez Pereira gives them dream roles that enable them to raise the film into something quite extraordinary - Abril's vulnerability is as well used as in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, her being older here in the role of Miranda adding something else. They both play sex addicts who meet at a self-help group, and embark on a torrid affair, but both have lives mired in complications - Javier (his name in the film) is involved in some ultra-sleazy sex tapes that have been leaked onto the market without his knowing, involving a mysterious beauty he meets at an airport. The plot is very complicated, and certain aspects still perplex me after at least three viewings, but these details may be deliberate, a way of blurring the boundary between the real and the imagined that has so much to do with the erotic and its relation to language. Film language as well, for that matter, as the world the film creates is one of dark brown tones on the cusp between bleak and warm; it is never less than stylised, but in a way that is always intriguing. Miranda is truly admired by two men, the passionate Javier and equally by her husband, played brilliantly by Carmelo Gomez. The latter is a policeman investigating a murder case in which Javier is the prime suspect. It becomes a tragic triangle, treated with marked Hitchcockian overtones, more than the Almodovar influence, I would say, even if the opening credits lead you to think it is by Almodovar. The use of music is highly effective, giving an emotional opening-out where you thought only bleakness was possible, and somehow making it a film in which feelings - often obsessive or murky ones - are never swamped by the plot. Sergi Lopez also appears, always adding some special charge of his own and in this film his bare torso in the men's loo ... It is a remarkable achievement - really, there are few thrillers this good, quite as elegiac or carrying such an aura of mystery through every stylish frame.

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