Something Bitter in the Mouth
SpanishAlgo amargo en la boca
Directed byEloy de la Iglesia
Starring
Release date
1969
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Something Bitter in the Mouth (Spanish: Algo amargo en la boca) is a 1969 Spanish film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It is a blend of psychological thriller, erotic-intimist melodrama and sociopolitical parable.[1]

Plot

César becomes the object of sexual desire of three women (Clementina, Aurelia and Ana) for different reasons.[2][3]

Cast

Production

The film had issues with Francoist censorship,[7] primarily involving the script rather than the finished cut.[8] They prevented the film from the denouement featured in the original script, with the three women killing César, as the executioner ended up being the mentally-retarded servant Jacobo.[6] The final script was penned by Eloy de la Iglesia with the collaboration of Ana Diosdado (uncredited).[8]

Release

The film was theatrically released in Barcelona in 1969.[8] It opened in the Spanish capital in 1972, after the success of De la Iglesia's The Glass Ceiling.[8]

Reception

Fernando Morales of El País described the film as "a personal and murky melodrama, full of morbidity, which had good manners", yet also "greatly diminished by the [censorship] issues".[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ López Sangüesa, José Luis (2015). "Cine policíaco del tardofranquismo: el thriller en el "período oscuro" del cine español (1969-1975". Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense. 38: 278.
  2. ↑ Casas, Quim (10 August 2018). "Eloy de la Iglesia, mucho más que cine quinqui". Prensa Ibérica.
  3. ↑ Gómez Méndez, Carlos Alberto (2015). Eloy de la Iglesia. Cine y cambio político. Discursos del disenso del franquismo a la post-transición. Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. p. 47.
  4. ↑ Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio (2017). "Sexual horror Stories: The Eroticisation of Spanish Horror Film (1969−1975)". In Fouz-Hernández, Santiago (ed.). Spanish Erotic Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-4744-0047-3.
  5. 1 2 3 Lázaro-Reboll 2017, p. 79.
  6. 1 2 Lázaro-Reboll 2017, p. 80.
  7. ↑ Ligero, Manuel (28 April 2022). "Muere Juan Diego, monstruo del cine español". La Marea.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Gómez Méndez 2015, p. 47.
  9. ↑ Morales, Fernando (16 July 1996). "Algo amargo en la boca". El País.
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