Si te dicen que caí (1989)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Vicente Aranda

Writers:

Vicente Aranda (writer)
Juan Marsé (novel)

Release Date:

19 September 1989 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories...

Plot Keywords:

Spanish Civil War | Rough Sex | Tall Tale | Explicit Sex | Male Prostitute

Awards:

6 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Victoria Abril	...	Menchu / Ramona / Aurora Nin
Jorge Sanz	...	Daniel Javaloyes 'Java'
Antonio Banderas	...	Marcos
Javier Gurruchaga	...	Conrado-Señor Galán
Guillermo Montesinos	...	Fusam
Joan Miralles	...	Nadal
Ferran Rañé	...	Taylor
Lluís Homar	...	Palau
Carlos Tristancho	...	Sendra
Juan Diego Botto	...	Sarnita
María Botto	...	Fueguiña
Luis Giralte	...	Luis
Marc Barahoma	...	Mingo
Ariadna Navarro	...	Juanita
Cesáreo Estébanez	...	Ñito

Also Known As:

Aventis (Spain: Catalan title)
If They Tell You I Fell

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish | Catalan

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Ideas y Producciones Cinematográficas (IPC)

Vicente Aranda is like the Spanish verb "erguir" - impossible to conjugate

Aranda has directed a few things which might be worth talking about, or even mentioning; but he has also made a few films which I prefer to forget about, like........um......like.......I can't remember.

"Aventis" belongs to this category. If starting off from the fact that the novelist Juan Marsé has very little intellectually o literary going for him, if Jorge Sanz has never pleased me in anything at all, and Victoria Abril has satisfied me occasionally as being an actress (and not merely a sex-object), for example in "Bicicletas son para el verano, Las" (1984), "Pazos de Ulloa, Los" (1985) (mini), or Tiempo de silencio (1986), you might be ready to accept that apart from a vague story-line which seems to meander between nowhere and somewhere else, the sight of Jorge Sanz having sex "doggy style" with Victoria Abril, is about as appetising as eating live cockroach sandwiches for breakfast.

Too much tits, bums and testicles for my liking. Near pornography in classification. Poor stuff: just in case some of you reading my comments think I praise all Spanish films. I do not: some are dreadful. "Aventis" (Si te dicen que caí) is one of them.