Bernard and his sister Eloisa live in a ramshackle house, the rest of their ancient past and prosperity. They are waiting for their old and sick Aunt Lina to die, to inherit her vast fortune and meanwhile have a morbid existence, full of obsessions and manias.
Direction
Bigas Luna's early grotesquerie before he went full Jamón Jamón.
Production
The rotting mansion is practically its own suffocating character.
Acting
Àngel Jové's sweaty desperation is genuinely uncomfortable.
Director
Bigas Luna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Spain's 'destape' era — using sex and grotesque humor to process Franco-era repression.
Bigas Luna's second feature; he'd later abandon this claustrophobic style for the sun-drenched eroticism of Jamón, Jamón.
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