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El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

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El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)
DVD9(cust.) | Spanish + Russian | 720x576 | mpeg2, ~8452 kbps | Spa(AC3, ~448 kbps) | Ru(AC3, ~192 kbps) | 6.79 GB
Subs: English, Spanish, Russian | Drama, Comedy

Juan (Imanol Arias) speaks Catalan and Spanish. He was active in political protests under the Franco regime. He is an astonishingly bad accordian player, and an acceptable ventriloquist, which enables him to scratch a living from the streets as an itinerant musician/entertainer. A long time ago, he met an aristocratic young woman (Ornella Muti) at a sit-in at an art gallery and married her. She has long since divorced him, but he still yearns for her. Juan was injured in a random terrorist incident, and now affects costumes that evoke the Phantom of the Opera and other famous mutilated men. He has minor encounters with women, but he is still seeking some way to come back into his former wife's life again.

Norma works for the department of linguistics of Catalonia while Juan or Joan, his Catalan name, is overwhelmed by the social position acquired through the marriage. There is little use in Marés’ new life for his skills as ventriloquist or accordion player. After five years, the marriage starts to fall apart, when Norma’s real character comes to the surface. The beautiful Norma is a proud, cold woman with dark sexual tendencies. She has a special attraction for low class men who are “charnegos” (people who are not Catalan). Norma also has a particular fetish with shoes, the men she sleeps with have to hold a shoe with the sole force of their erection. Juan returns home one evening, earlier than expected. He finds his unfaithful wife having sex with a shoe shiner charnego. Face with proof of her infidelity, Norma, tired of her husband, just leaves him for good.

Juan keeps the apartment he used to share with his wife but without her support he is reduced to scratch a living from the streets playing the accordion and begging for money in las Ramblas. While performing on the streets, he is caught in the middle of a confrontation between a pro-Catalan language group and a Spanish right wing extremists. Juan plays the anthem of Catalonia which makes him a target of the extremists who throw a Molotov cocktail at him, burning him.

IMDB info
Stars: Imanol Arias, Ornella Muti, Loles León
Production land: Spain | Italy
Run time: ~97 min
PAL 16:9
Bonuses included

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)

El amante bilingüe / L'amante bilingue / The Bilingual Lover - by Vicente Aranda (1993)