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DVD ~ Francesca Neri
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  • Actors: Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, María Barranco, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Rosana Pastor
  • Directors: Bigas Luna
  • Writers: Bigas Luna, Almudena Grandes
  • Producers: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Santiago Ganuza
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Dec 2002
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000071WJK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,801 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sexual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu's affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there's no such thing as sex after marriage, but here Lulu's husband incomprehensibly leads her into blindfolded incest, then is heartbroken when she reacts with disgust.

Soon Lulu (superbly played by Francesca Neri from ingénue to hardened 30-something), is paying gay men for group sex, eventually becoming an unwilling attraction in a commercial sado-machochistic orgy. The closest most UK audiences will have come to this before is in Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and Crimes of Passion (1984), and it is surely one of the most gut-churningly nightmarish scenes ever passed for home viewing. While Ages of Lulu may function as a reactionary warning against the wilder shores of sex, Luna's intention remains unsatisfyingly enigmatic, since the script is under-written and psychologically unconvincing. The end result is pretentious, repellent pornography which degrades human beings of any sexual persuasion.

On the DVD: The Ages of Lulu is transferred at an anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 and image quality is very good, though in some scenes very slightly soft. The film can be watched with or without English subtitles, and the sound is unremarkable stereo. The main extras are a seven-page essay on Bigas Luna and five pages detailing the now restored 110 seconds of cuts made to the 1998 video release. The main title still contains 65 seconds of alternate footage to the cinema original for legal reasons. Also included are filmographies of Lunas and Oscar Ladoire, two trailers plus trailers for six other films. --Gary S Dalkin



Special Features

Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
Spanish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Spanish
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Billy Chainsaw Film Notes
Ages Of Lulu At The BBFC
Tartan Video Trailer Reel
English
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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Ages of Lulu, 27 Jan 2003
This review is from: The Ages Of Lulu [VHS] [1990] (VHS Tape)
This is a film about a woman's sexual coming of age and taking her all the way down the path of near self-destruction. Made by a well-known Spanish director, this film is soft porn art at its best whilst at the same time being a quality drama. It is beautifully filmed with very good acting. Not for lovers of the missionary position, it explores different ways of sexual expression which some may consider abnormal, tasteless or revolting. Definitely not a film for the narrow-minded or prude viewer. All others will thoroughly enjoy it!
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good voyeur fun, 14 Nov 2006
By Sadler's Wells (Leeds. Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
I like to think I watch movies on the lowest level possible.

I am not gay neither am I homophobic, so the homoerotic scene, which was erotically supercharged, was great fun.

The later scenes have been described previously as wanting to make you puke. I didn't understand them at all. There was no detail in the film, so you would have to watch it with an S and M friend for an explanation.

Loved the incest. Very well done. A great moment in the film.

I imagine the film has a deep meaning for intelligent people. For myself I could not get beyond the intoxicating sexiness of the leading lady.

The only advice I can offer is don't watch it with your grandmother.

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38 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, 5 Jun 2005
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When I rented this film out I was expecting a semi erotic typical European film with an interesting morale, instead I found an excuse for the director to be pornographic and perverse in a sense that will put horrid images into your mind and off sexual fantasies for a long while. Especially a scene with the transvestite masturbating him/herself displays probably the most ugly manhood I have ever come across. A truly disturbing image as well as the ending which makes you want to vomit. The film could have been written with a lot more humanity and warmth and psychology between the main characters of Lulu and Pablo whose marriage we explore sexually - nothing else is really portrayed, we see them have a daughter but she only appears in the film twice as an infant and a young girl, then she seems to just dissapear. The film brings up a lot of interesting subplots and questions, incest, confused gener issues, domination etc but never follows up on anything in any way constructive. I left watching the film with a bad taste in my mouth and with these gruesome images of cruel and disturbed acts ruining my day.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Titilation!!!
Super film, the scene with the scissors as depicted on the front cover saves me any effort at foreplay. Just need to know when to stop fast forwarding.
Published 15 months ago by Westyorkshire

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing!
sorry for mistakes, I'm no native speaker...
"Lulu" from Almudena Grandes is one of the best erotic novels with a sadomasochistic topic. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Schnutep

4.0 out of 5 stars AN EXPLORATION OF THE DARKER SIDE OF SEX
It is difficult to know whether Bigas Luna is an unreconstructed celebrator of machismo, or a sly critic of it. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2007 by stuart

1.0 out of 5 stars Erotisism of the wrong kind
This film has a certain flair of pretension and incredulity hanging over it, before i had even put the disk in the machine. Read more
Published on 15 April 2006 by Bionic Reviwer

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC
I thought this film was fantastic...although weird hehe I think if your pondering buying it then just do it, its worth it.
Published on 11 Jan 2006

2.0 out of 5 stars not up to his usual standard
I wasn't shocked by the content of the film, but i found the experience of watching it quite sordid. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars Eroticism
An excllent film, well presented especially for a film with subtitles. Easy to follow and extremely focused on the erotic nature. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars The underbelly of Spanish Life
The Ages of Lulu should not be watched by anyone that is easily offended by Homoerotic images. It is both disturbing and beautiful. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2003 by chrisay59

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