Lovers: A True Story

Lovers: A True Story

This landlady has more than just rent on her mind

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Release Date

2/23/1991

Runtime

103 mins

Overview

Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

$2,356,000

Revenue

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Homepage

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A morally murky love triangle set in 1950s Spain where passion and desperation collide, leaving no one unscathed. The film pulls you through competing sympathies as a man torn between two women must finally reckon with the consequences of his choices.

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BittersweetTenseRomanticMelancholic

Themes

LoveBetrayalFamilyIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Linear

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Sexual content

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