Luna Caliente
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: World cinema, Thriller, Erotic Drama, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Eduard Fernández, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Héctor Colomé, José Coronado, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Empar Ferrer, Carla Sánchez, Thaïs Blume
Luna Caliente (English: Hot Moon) is a 2009 Spanish film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, starring Eduard Fernández and Thaïs Blume. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Argentine author Mempo Giardinelli. While the book placed the action in the last military coup in Argentina, Aranda set the story in Spain of the 70s during the process of Burgos, which caused some of the last death sentences in Spain during Francos' regime. The plot centers on a rape that changes the lives of the aggressor and his victim. The film premiered in October 2009 at the Valladolid International Film Festival and had wide release in 2010.
In the autumn of 1970, Juan, a Spanish poet living in Paris working for UNESCO, returns on vacation to his hometown, Burgos. The city is under heavy police and military surveillance due to the so-called Burgos process, a summary military trial against a group of ETA members and other militants against Francisco Franco’s regime.
During his first night in Burgos, Juan has dinner with doctor Miniente, an old colleague and family friend who lives in the outskirts of the city with his wife Antonia and their only daughter Ramona. Dr Miniente is a
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