The Virgin of Lust () is a 2002 Spanish-Mexican-Portuguese drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein from a screenplay by Paz Alicia Garciadiego. It is loosely based on Max Aub's story La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (1960).
Plot The film is set in Mexico in the 1940s. Nacho works for tyrannical racist Don Lázaro in the Café Ofelia. He falls in love with Spanish prostitute Lola.
Cast
Release Distributed by Lauren Films, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 6 September 2002.
Reception Deborah Young of Variety considered that patient viewers are rewarded by "a memorable vision of sexual obsession as an everyday matter, paralleled to the devastation wreaked by great movements of history and politics".
Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered the film to be "a magnificent direct hit of surreal cinema between the eyes that fascinates and, unfortunately, also makes you dizzy".
Awards Fipreci Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (2002)
See also List of Spanish films of 2002
References
External links
The Virgin of Lust at ICAA's Catálogo de Cinespañol