Pepón Coromina Movies
- 1978
Sometime in 1974, handyman Jose Luis Cerveto savagely murdered his employers by repeatedly stabbing them. In this fascinating Spanish documentary, the surprisingly intelligent and articulate Cerveto recounts in detail his life history and the circumstances of the murder. He is shown to have been an orphaned at an early age and plagued by psychological and sexual problems that seem to have contributed to his crime. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Garcia
- 1978
Bilbao is a Basque city in Spain, the title of a song by Lotte Lenya, and (in this movie) the name of the prostitute being stalked by an ominously silent, obsessed and deeply disturbed man. He collects information about any of the three Bilbaos in a scrapbook, and for a long time only follows the girl around before causing her to suffer a grisly fate at his hands. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Angel Jové, Maria Martin, (more)
- 1979
A brother and sister live together in a relationship which is unhealthily close, and has overtones of incest. The unpleasant couple are involved in other deranged and disgusting activities as well, including feeding raw meat (possibly from live puppies) to their pet poodle. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Angel Jové, Consol Tura, (more)
- 1980
An outrageous comedy that throws viewers into a culture shock. A suggestive satire about women who ignore society's rules. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, (more)
- 1980
Unusual only because the dialogue is in Catalan, this otherwise run-of-the-mill drama is about a sex counsellor with his own sexual problems. He is chasing after a nurse while his wife is having an affair with someone else. To put it mildly, his marriage is not doing so well. Issues such as feminism, sex education, and ethical practices either in marriage or in counseling are not treated at length or in depth. There is some frontal nudity and simulated sex, though the film is not erotic or softcore. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Juanjo Puigcorbe, Isabel Mestres, (more)
- 1981
In this children's film about the values of fighting air pollution, a young singing group (Regaliz) is joined by other pre-teens to discover why all the birds have deserted Barcelona -- and what will bring them back again? When it appears that the culprit is the city's smog-filled air, the youngsters decide to take matters into their own hands. Their civic calling is subsequently lightened by snappy dialogue and a few musical numbers. The children organize protests, they convince the mayor to help out, they struggle with their parents, and even set up tree houses in a public park as their new residences. Their activities come to a climax when one of them is injured falling out of a tree house, and the boy's father -- an industrial mogul -- starts taking the problem of air pollution to heart. Maybe there is some hope for the return of the birds after all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Assumpta Serna
- 1982
Colometa (Silvia Munt) is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Silvia Munt
- 1983
Set in Barcelona at the end of the 1950s, this melodrama revolves around a swaggering, petty criminal who tries to impress with his motorcycle skills and black leathers as he seduces one of the servants in a wealthy family and then goes after the blond daughter of the household. His plans are destroyed when the servant becomes hospitalized and eventually dies of unknown causes, catalyzing the rich family to send their daughter away and go after the young hoodlum to end his days of delinquency. Undistinguished in its script and the interpretations of the main protagonists, this film does not hold attention securely enough to keep it from slipping. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Angel Alcázar, Maribel Martin, (more)
Poltergeist-purger Zelda Rubinstein toplines this interesting, twisty psycho-thriller from Spain, which makes clever (though repetitive) use of its movie-within-a-movie premise. As the star of the horror film "The Mommy," Rubinstein plays a mother who hypnotizes her son (Michael Lerner) into seeking more victims to supply her growing collection of human eyeballs. "The Mommy" seems also to exert a weird hypnotic effect on the audience watching it, particularly one impressionable fellow who mirrors Lerner's actions by stalking fellow movie patrons... just as the onscreen murderer is entering a movie theater to do the same thing. If this sounds confusing, that's probably because it is. The interesting premise wears thin about halfway through, with the relentless attempts at viewer disorientation becoming more tiresome than frightening. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, (more)
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