Lovers: A True Story
1991 [SPANISH]
Crime / Drama / Romance

Plot summary
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.
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Movie Reviews
A highly sophisticated as well as accomplished work by Vicente Aranda , being based on a real crime that happened in Spain at the 50s
Enjoyable, if slightly shallow, melodrama
Entertaining, sexy melodrama set in Franco's Spain, and based on a true story.
A young solider is torn between his virginal, virtuous hard working fiancée, and his hot- blooded, small-time criminal landlady, with whom he has a tempestuous affair. This leads to betrayals and ultimately murder.
Well acted, and never dull, but also never goes very deep into the characters, with sudden changes in alliance and attitude occurring without much explanation, and too fast to be believed. Consequentially, it's never very emotional, even if the story is tragic. A movie I enjoyed, but doubt I'd feel the inclination to see again,