Kiss of the Spider Woman [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	William Hurt Raul Julia Sonia Braga José Lewgoy Milton Gonçalves
	Video by:	Polygram Video
	Sales Rank:	238530

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Actor(s):
William Hurt
Raul Julia
Sonia Braga
José Lewgoy
Milton Gonçalves

Creators:
Altamiro Boscoli (Producer)
David Weisman (Producer)
Francisco Ramalho Jr. (Producer)
Gustavo Halbreich (Producer)
Jaime Sverner (Producer)
Leonard Schrader (Writer)
Manuel Puig (Writer)

Director(s):
Hector Babenco

Recording label: Polygram Video
EAN: 9786303832586
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 630383258X
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1995-11-14
Universal product code (UPC): 780063247535
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

Product Description
Kiss of the Spider Woman [VHS] (1985) William Hurt (Actor), Raul Julia (Actor) | Rated: R | Format: VHS Tape

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Kiss of the Spider Woman starts out simply enough, hemmed in by the narrow walls of a Latin American prison cell. Molina (William Hurt) is telling his new cellmate, Valentin (Raul Julia), his favorite story. Molina is a delicate homosexual imprisoned for seducing a minor; Valentin is a bearded revolutionary still bleeding from his interrogation. If their film unfolded into the typical prison buddy plot, it'd still be a good movie. But this is a great movie. There are stories twisting within stories, each drawing a new, surprising level of difference between the two heroes: escapism versus realism, romance versus politics, gay versus straight, hero versus coward. As their unstable friendship grows more real, their stories become more vivid--whether Molina's fondly remembered Nazi propaganda noir, Valentin's tortured romantic history, or a tropical island fable told merely to pass the time. (Each substory stars Sonia Braga, a neat bit of casting that further blurs the line between fantasy and reality.) By the end, each man has changed just enough to taste the other's tragedy--a transformation that gives each the strength to define freedom on his own terms, despite the brutality of the prison and the bleak world beyond its walls. --Grant Balfour

Running time: 120 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Portuguese (Original Language)