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Between Your Legs by Manuel Gómez Pereira
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DVD detailsActor: Carmelo Gómez, Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, Sergi López, Victoria Abril Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira Brand: TLA RELEASING Writer: Manuel Gómez Pereira Producer: César Benítez Producer: Francisco Ramos Producer: Jean-François Davy Writer: Joaquín Oristrell Writer: Juan Luis Iborra Writer: Yolanda García Serrano DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Running Time: 115 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: TLA Releasing
DVD Reviews of Between Your LegsDVD Review: Between Your Legs Summary: 3 Stars
Between Your Legs! What kind of visions does this title conjure up in your mind? If you imagined the wind blowing through your hair while riding a Harley, not bad but you're wrong. Horseback riding or racing? Wrong again. If these are the images you summon, you are probably either a priest, a nun or undersexed. I'll give you a clue. What is said to make the world go around? Sex? Bingo! Between Your Legs is a story about SEX. Sex addicts to be exact.
Between Your Legs centers around three people Miranda, Victoria Abril, Javier, Javier Bardem and Felix, Carmelo Gomez, two of whom meet at a therapy session for sex addicts, a Sex Anonymous if you will. Talk about throwing red meat at a tiger, a co-ed therapy session for SEX ADDICTS? Not surprisingly, Miranda and Javier, who have the same compulsions, start hanging around. When Miranda wasn't walking her dog through the park, picking up strangers for trysts, she was the wife of Felix, a cop and mother of an adolescent daughter and Javier, when not engaging in habitual phone sex, was a successful writer and producer.
As I said Miranda and Javier start hanging around and pretty soon they're hanging all around each other. In fairness Miranda tried to resist but Javier was persistent and soon, after a couple hours, they were having a go in an abandoned car in a parking garage. In the aftermath this upset Miranda, probably because she was off to a bad start curing her addiction, and she ran off. However the affair continued and eventually Felix (Miranda`s husband) found out.
At this point, I need to tell you that Javier discovers that audio tapes of his erogenous phone conversations have been circulating around Spain (it`s a Spanish movie) much to his consternation, also the police discover the body of a young man in the back of the abandoned vehicle, in which Miranda and Javier first had sex in leaving behind DNA which ostensibly tied Javier to the car if not the body, so Felix, who didn't like Javier much anyway, thought he was a murderer.
Conclusion
The rest of the movie is spent tying these two events (tapes/body) together. There were a couple of fairly good plot twists but they failed to elevate the movie much above mediocrity.
Since this was a foreign film, (with sub titles) I was not familiar with any of the cast. I thought their acting was adequate though not exceptional but that is a judgment leveled without the benefit of understanding what they were saying. (my Spainsh is a little rusty). I thought the story moved well and the directing or maybe the editing (it's hard to tell) was done well. Although there were several passionately erotic sex scenes, there was no full nudity and even partial nudity was held to a minimum. This doesn't mean that anyone under the age of majority should be watching this movie as just the story line itself connotes lascivious behavior. The sex scenes themselves were done realistically almost fully clothed but were skillfully depicted and because of the spontaneity, were just as sensuous, if not more, than the usual nude sex simulations. I must admit to a certain amount of disappointment from my voyeuristic eyes, however. Final Rating: 3.4 stars
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Description of Between Your LegsThis taut unpredictable thriller about sexual obsession from Spanish director Manuel Gomez Pereira stars Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (The Dancer Upstairs Before Night Falls) and Victoria Abril (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). Javier a married screenwriter with a penchant for phone sex and the family babysitter attends a sex addict's meeting where his eyes lock with the sultry Miranda who likes her sex in public. After the meeting unable to control their urges clothes are shed and lives damaged as Miranda and Javier have sex in an abandoned car - which happens to have a corpse in the trunk. From the sizzling opening sex scene to the shocking conclusion Between Your Legs is a consistently engaging absolutely compelling mystery.System Requirements:Running Time 120 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 807839000542 Manufacturer No: TLA045
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