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Written and Directed by José Antonio de la Loma. Cinematography by Juan Gelpí.
The film stars Ágata Lys as Teresa, Ricardo Merino as Roldán, Silvia Solar as Harriette, Conrado Tortosa 'Pipper' as Charlie, Eva Robin as Susi, Verónica Miriel as Verónica, Carlos Tristán as Tío Carlos, Mario Gas as Andrés, Iván Tubau as David and Josep Ballester as Fotógrafo (as Jose Ballester)
This is the tale of Teresa who works for her uncle in a Mediterranean seaside hotel possibly in Mataró a sort of outpost on the edge of greater Barcelona. Think of it as roughly from Midtown Manhattan to Long Beach, NY, or downtown L.A. to Venice Beach or Malibu.
This Teresa is a bombshell. She resembles Marilyn Monroe. She attracts the attention of a Peeping Tom / Photographer. Instead of the Movie biz its the Photography biz
I don't speak Spanish but I can understand some words and half ass figure out what's going on. I don't know if the acting is any good I just know that the cinematographer Juan Gelpí got it right. The Visual Style clicks. You could take screenshots from this set them to music and be highly entertained.
Story
Early morning. The credit sequence. We get establishing shots of possibly the coast highway along the Playa del Callao. Then we cut to a hotel with a section of tile roof sloping down from a wall with windows. and watch as a man creeps along it.
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| Playa de Callo? |
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| A Peeping Tom |
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| Teresa hears a click... |
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| and starts posing |
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She walks down a stairway to work while the Peeping Tom climbs down and across balconies to his room. He apparently is at the hotel because he has a parttime gig as the hotel photographer. We watch as he develops his pictures of Teresa in his hotel rooms bathroom.
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Meanwhile Teresa comes into the kitchen grabs a banana to eat, and is ordered by to bring breakfast to her Tio. Tio is a letch.
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Meanwhile, Celia who manages the hotel fires the photographer, she rips up his work. he probably just took the gig to get close to Teresa. So what happens is that the photographer leaving to go back to his studio in Barcelona sees Teresa hitching along the road and offers her a ride. He schmoozes her telling her that she has what it takes, tells her that she is the new Marilyn and convinces her to stay at his place.
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It's interesting visually enough to get a 6/10.
"Teresa is doomed to become a mere clone of Marilyn Monroe, a glossy object on the cover of a men's magazine, a user of barbiturates, a broken doll with a tragic destiny." (Dqvlapeli Blog )
"Ágata Lys's posing imitating Marilyn's most famous nude photos. We have to see it."
"Ágata Lys filmed one of her best-known films with José Antonio de la Loma prior to the success of quinqui cinema with “Perros Callejeros” and the like.
"A 'light' exposure film, an arbitrary parallel is established between the protagonist and Marilyn Monroe, a platinum blonde with curves, incapable of getting rid of her condition as a “sexual object” who is constantly abused by guys who only seem to think with their crotch.
The male parts are reduced to the functionality of reporting regular harassment, using trivial counterpoints to establish typologies of good and bad; and the plot is schematic, predictable, with a tragic psychological docudrama approach that does not go beyond its underlined message. (Chips in Aloha Criticón)
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