SPANISH FLY

Name: SPANISH FLY
Item: SPANISH FLY
Author: Review

"Lust Rules"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

In SPANISH FLY, a feminist writer named Zoe visits Spain to research the macho mystique of the Spanish male. Shy and confused, Zoe becomes angry at her handsome but laid-back interpreter, Antonio. Antonio is somewhat of a womanizer himself, but Zoe cannot see the compassionate man he hides inside himself. He is actually looking for a more meaningful relationship, specifically with Zoe. After a trip to the South of Spain, Zoe discovers this truth about him, and Antonio uncovers some secrets about Zoe’s past. Just when the audience expects a warm, uplifting story about finding one’s true love and overcoming one’s past, the last scene of SPANISH FLY is just a crude sexual coupling between Zoe and Antonio in a darkened hallway.

Although SPANISH FLY is not as sexually explicit as its title implies, it is explicit enough. The story opens innocently enough, but then includes references to sexual desire and scenes of fornication and lust. The dramatic, romantic scenes between Zoe and Antonio play well. They may even make viewers think the movie will end with a positive, though contrived, moral resolution. Regrettably, however, these intentions are betrayed by the final scene of lust.

Content:

(RoRoRo, PaPa, B, LLL, VV, SSS, NN, AA, D, Ho, MM) Romantic worldview about losing oneself in a spurt of pagan sexuality, with some minor moral elements; 28 obscenities & 14 mostly mild profanities plus some discussiuon of sexual issues & vulgar talk; moderate violence, mostly because of an ambiguous rape scene; implied fornication, briefly depicted fornication, heroine watches apparent rape scene, & men kiss homosexually; moderate nudity including brief images of upper & rear male & female nudity; alcohol use & drunkenness; smoking; implied homosexuality, men kiss & tranvestite talks to heroine; and, lust, stealing, voyeurism, & secretly harboring resentment.

More Detail:

There’s a nice romantic movie lost in the pagan sexuality of SPANISH FLY. Regrettably, viewers only get a peek of the movie-that-could-have-been in the final two-thirds of the story, then it disappears completely in the movie’s final scene of mere lust.

Daphna Kastner directs herself as Zoe, a feminist writer who visits Madrid, Spain to research the macho mystique of the Spanish male. Shy and confused, Zoe becomes angry at her handsome but laid-back interpreter, Antonio, played well by a magnetic Toni Canto. Antonio is somewhat of a womanizer himself, but Zoe cannot see the sensitive, compassionate man he hides inside himself. Antonio is actually looking for a more meaningful relationship, specifically with Zoe. After a trip to the South of Spain, Zoe discovers this truth about him, and Antonio uncovers some revealing secrets about Zoe’s past. Just when the audience expects the movie to become a warm, uplifting story about finding one’s true love, the last scene is just a crude, passionate sexual coupling between Zoe and Antonio in a darkened hallway.

Although SPANISH FLY is not as sexually explicit as its title implies, it is explicit enough, especially in its general attitude toward illicit sex and lust. The story opens innocently enough, but it then includes crude references to sexual desire, foul language and brief scenes of fornication and lust. The dramatic and romantic scenes between Zoe and Antonio in the final two-thirds of the movie play well. They may even make viewers think the movie will end with a positive, though contrived, moral resolution of their conflicts. Regrettably, however, these intentions are betrayed by the final scene, which ends Zoe and Antonio’s story too abruptly. Thus, SPANISH FLY spoils what could have been a nice romantic movie with an anticlimactic scene of mere sexual lust. Pun intended.