Something Bitter in the Mouth

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]

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

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. Lázaro-Reboll 2017, p. 79.
  6. Lázaro-Reboll 2017, p. 80.
  7. Ligero, Manuel (28 April 2022). "Muere Juan Diego, monstruo del cine español". La Marea.
  8. Gómez Méndez 2015, p. 47.
  9. Morales, Fernando (16 July 1996). "Algo amargo en la boca". El País.
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