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| Title: |
El amante bilingüe
(1993)
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| Director: |
Vicente Aranda |
| Writer: |
Juan Marsé |
| Starring: |
Ornella Muti, Javier Bardem, Imanol Arias |
| Genre: |
Comedy, Drama |
| Description: |
Juan Marés is a man from a humble background, the son of a frustrated zarzuela singer and an illusionist known as Fu-Ching, the magician. 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. 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). 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. Juan Marés falls deeper into indigence and schizophrenic hallucinations. His personality is transformed by his misfortune. Another day he calls her up at work pretending to need help in the translation of many words from Spanish to Catalan. Juan Marés, now under the disguise of Juan Faneca. Faneca gets closer to Noma and his dream is fulfilled. |
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