Not Love Just Frenzy
by Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem, David Menkes
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Actor: Beatriz Santiago, Cayetana Guill?n Cuervo, Gustavo Salmer?n, Ingrid Rubio, Nancho NovoDirector: Alfonso Albacete, David Menkes, Miguel Bardem
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Not Love Just Frenzy
DVD Review: Just love not frenzy,DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Very sweet, Almodovar's style movie about Spanish club life, drugs, homo- and hetero sex affairs and crime. Lots of music, stylish drugqueens and emotional dialogs - all that stuff which we love in Spanish cinema.DVD Review: Just plain crazy fun!
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent movie. It was extremly entertaining, cleaver, well acted and directed, erotic and overall well done.DVD Review: Pansexual frolics in Madrid's club scene
Summary: 3 Stars
NOT LOVE, JUST FRENZY (M?s que Amor Frenes?, 1996)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
DVD soundtrack: Dolby 2.0 stereo
Theatrical soundtrack: Dolby Digital
The staff and customers of a popular Madrid nightclub - gay, straight and everything in between - are thrown into disarray by the arrival of a handsome stranger (Nancho Novo) whose life is threatened by a corrupt cop (Javier Manrique) seeking to connect him with a brutal murder.
Virtually every review to date has compared this outrageous Spanish melodrama to the early work of Pedro Almodovar, and while the movie was clearly inspired by that director's commercial success, NOT LOVE, JUST FRENZY is hugely enjoyable on its own terms, despite an initial lack of focus and a series of disappointing plot developments toward the end of the film. Co-written and directed by Miguel Bardem and debut filmmakers Alfonso Albarete and David Menkes (I LOVE YOU BABY), the movie features some of Spain's sexiest rising stars - including popular actress/TV presenter Cayetana Guill?n Cuervo (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN) as a trampy nightclub owner with the hots for Novo, and Gustavo Salmer?n (99.9) as the eternal party-boy who dumps his deceitful boyfriend Javier Albal? (SECOND SKIN) to pursue an impossible infatuation with the unattainable, ultra-beautiful Liberto Rabal (LIVE FLESH) - and includes cameo appearances by Penelope Cruz (blink and you'll miss her), Javier Bardem (ditto) and Almodovar favorite Bibi Andersen as a lesbian pimp(!).
The script combines sure-fire commercial elements (unrequited love, sexual betrayal, nymphomania, etc.) with layers of melodramatic excess (the gigolo who swears he was framed for murder, the psycho cop determined to nail him come what may), and the movie indulges an exhilarating sexual candor, including a heated exchange between Salmer?n and Albal? in a shower, Novo and Guill?n Cuervo enjoying a wild encounter in front of a bank of video monitors, and - in the film's most romantic episode - Rabal's full-frontal nude scene on a rooftop at midnight. All in all, voyeurs will certainly get their money's worth!
About halfway through, however, the movie surrenders its 'gay' credentials and descends into mere 'camp', dropping several interesting plot threads to focus on Manrique's increasingly psychotic behavior as he launches a series of violent assaults on the primary female characters (the final sequence is a jaw-dropping combination of sex, death and bodily fluids!). Still, the movie is well-played by an engaging young cast (watch out for the lovely shot of Guill?n Cuervo sweeping down a crowded high street in a billowing Victorian-style party dress!), and most viewers will be impressed by the filmmakers' refusal to compromise their eccentric ideals.
There are no DVD extras.
DVD Review: Just plain fun if not terribly deep
Summary: 4 Stars
The plot is simple enough...she and her two roomates throw a party to find a fourth. Meanwhile, her ex comes back but with the police after him for a suspected sex murder. All of which is a mere excuse for meeting a gorgeous gigolo, a foxy starlet, one cool madam, and a host of flashy queens, not to mention a cabal of street agitators--all of whom move to a disco beat. If you like Pedro Almodovar, you probably love this.DVD Review: Hot Madrid club scene drama!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is sexy and kinetic from start to finish. It's hard to capture the real mood of the club scene. "Groove" managed to do it with the California Rave culture. "Not Love But Frenzy" hits the mark with the pansexual Madrid club scene. The actors are all very sexy, the action is unapologetic and in your face. And in case the box cover makes it look like this is just for gay guys, think again. This film mixes it up lesbian, straight, bi and gay! Strap yourself in, this is one hot ride!
Description of Not Love Just Frenzy
Not Love Just Frenzy is a fast and funny adventure through the wild Euro club scene in the style of the scandalous Pedro Almodovar! A group of hot and horny twentysomething friends looking for love at Madrid's hottest disco get tangled up in a maze of wild sex, drugs and gunfights as they encounter flashy drag queens, self-absorbed gigolos and a whole host of other outrageous characters. Accompanied by a dynamite soundtrack and starring many of Spain's top young actors, including appearances by Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky), Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) and Bibi Andersen (Kika) as a high-class lesbian pimp, "Not Love Just Frenzy" is too hip to miss.Comedy DVDs
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