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Writers:
José María Forqué (writer)
Hermógenes Sáinz (writer)
Release Date:
January 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
A 25-30-year old Hacienda-owner (David Hemmings) is misbehaving on women due to his traumatic youth;... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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David Hemmings ... Juan
Alida Valli ... Louise
Francisco Rabal ... Tio
Andrea Rau ... Lola
Nuria Gimeno ... Lucia
Galeazzo Benti ... Doctor
Aquiles Guerrero ... Aquiles
Lucila Herrera ... Maria
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba hijo ... Juan as child
Rudy Hernández ... Isabel
Enrique Soto ... Lolas Father
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beyond Erotica
It's Nothing Bad, Mama, It's Only a Game (International: English title) (informal literal title)
It's Nothing, Only a Game
Lola (USA)
No es nada, mamá, sólo un juego (Venezuela)
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
Spain | Venezuela
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
France:-12 (re-rating) | Finland:K-18 | France:X (original rating) | Norway:15 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted
Filming Locations:
Venezuela
Company:
Producciones Cinematográficas Orfeo more

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Artistic sleaze, 15 June 2004
Author: lazarillo

This is vaguely arty film which criticizes the decadence of landed nobility in Latin America and explores the perverse dialectic between power and sexuality. And of course, it's also a convenient excuse to show beautiful (and frequently naked) European actresses being abused and sexually degraded. David Hemmings is the spoiled and sexually-warped heir of a decrepit and nearly-bankrupt Venezuelan hacienda. His doting mother (Alida Valli) hires peasant girls from the nearby village to indulge her son in his perverse "games". His latest victim is played by Andrea Rau (who was Delphine Seyrig's vampiric lesbian sidekick in "Daughters of Darkness"). He locks her in a pen and starves her until she gives in to his sexual demands. He then plays various humiliating games with her--forcing her strip and dousing her with a hose, feeding her a maggot-filled loaf of bread, making her dress up like a bunny and run through the woods while he "hunts" her on horseback. Of course, he gets his comeuppance in the end but not before the requisite amount of nudity, sex, and misogynistic degradation has been achieved. I certainly wouldn't recommend this film to feminists (or to the vast majority of women for that matter), but it is fairly tasteful and restrained compared to many other films of its ilk. If you're into this sort of stuff but can't handle the rougher WIP, nunsploitation, or Nazi death camp movies, this one might be for you.

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