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Bookmark this pageJealousy (1999)
Director: Vicente Aranda
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Another preposterous tale of obsessional love from the director of Lovers finds Aranda still peddling his mix of TV movie visuals, faux-liberationist misogyny and tired storylines. Lorry driver Antonio is due to wed the gorgeous Carmen, but all that goes awry when he finds a photo of her in the company of an old flame. Cue seriously pathological behaviour from a character whose problems are rumoured to originate with southern inbreeding, and you have the makings of a plot with nada in the empathy stakes. 'What's he looking for?' asks one trucker. 'His own downfall,' the other replies (it's that kind of diner). A showdown in the rain is lifted from the previous film; and along the way the crudest of expositions is matched only by the vulgar portrayal of women as sex-obsessed primitivists equated with the fecund orange crops of the region.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Fernando Bovaira
Cast: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Daniel Gimenéz Cacho, María Botto, Luis Tosar, Alicia Sánchez, José Luis Oliva full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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