Product Details

• Actors: Jorge Rivero, Rebeca Silva, Jaime Moreno
• Directors: Emilio Fernández
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: August 27, 2002
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000687GB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,694 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Erotica" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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EROTICA - DVD Movie

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars slow, tame, 1970s flick, March 14, 2005

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erotica (DVD)

Though filmed in the late 1970s, this was made in Technicolor. It has the look of "Bewitched," "I Dream of Jeannie," or Marilyn Monroe films. There are few words here. That detail was possibly inspired by classic French films. Still, any bilingual person walking down the street could have written the subtitles for this film. However, the subtitles have no apostrophes in their translations. So everything is cant, dont, or wouldnt. Additionally, the film moves very slowly.

Characters' looks are blatant signifiers of their personae. In a different country and more than a decade before the Rodney King incident, police are made to look bad here. They are the old, fat characters who are racist and domineering to boot. Of the two main male characters, the hairier one is obviously "the bad guy," though both men are equally, and deliciously, muscular. This movie is very light on sexual content. So that fact that the title and the ingénue role is called "Erotica" is shocking, especially given that the film takes place in a conservative, highly religious country. Like most (heteropatriarchal) films, there is female nudity, but no male nudity. In fact, the viewer can almost guess that the female nudity is the sole reason for the film to be made.

Rober McKee Irwin has written that much of Mexican, canonical fiction depends on the relationships between different men, as opposed to the usual ideas of important dyads based on heterosexuality, class-blending, or miscegenation. He basically states that much of Eve Sedgwick's ideas apply to Mexican literature. Well, the same is true in this film. As much as the lead actress is featured, she is really just a prop in the background between two warring men. This is less of a bizarre love triangle and more of two men trafficking in women, as Gayle Rubin would say.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars erotica, February 15, 2009

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A. Ramos "the magic of movies" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erotica (DVD)

EROTICA the last picture directed by Emilio "Indio" Fernandez, NOT one
of his best works.