In Praise of Older Women (En brazos de la mujer madura)
Love & Sex as Vital Harmony
When a teenaged boy named Andrés gets separated from his mother during the Spanish Civil War, he thinks he's lost the only strong female figure in his life. But this all changes when he meets an older woman (played by Faye Dunaway) with a sexual energy and forwardness that tantalizes Andrés and, finally, captures his heart. Even after their affair ends, the easily coerced youth finds himself drawn into the arms of older women for years afterwards. It will take a very special and convincing young woman to lure Andrés back to lovers his own age.
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disapointing movie - Solangel
Maybe this was a good book, but it was a pretty flat movie. From the cover photo and the the blurb on the box, it looked like it was the story of a young man who has an affair with a woman played by Faye Dunnaway. But really it was just a parade of naked not-too-old women with lots of makeup letting themselves be manhandled by a guy who looks at them once with the face of a monkey in heat.
Maybe the book explains how he "conquers" his women, but the movie sure doesn't. It doesn't explain anything - it is literatlly just a series of cliché scenes where the guy looks at the woman, the woman is surprised by his boldness but doesn't want him to knwo that she enjoys his stares and then he honestly throws himself on her in a cheesy gropy way. And then fast-forward to his next chick.
The backdrop might be the Spanish Civil War, but for all the explaining they do, it might have been any time, anywhere. The war was nothing more than the backdrop and Faye Dunnaway was just a face during five minutes. Not worth watching.
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disapointing movie - Solangel
Maybe this was a good book, but it was a pretty flat movie. From the cover photo and the the blurb on the box, it looked like it was the story of a young man who has an affair with a woman played by Faye Dunnaway. But really it was just a parade of naked not-too-old ...