US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1985

Extramuros

Extramuros

Tuesday

Aug 13, 1991

@

7:30 pm

7th Annual Boston International Gay & Lesbian Film and Video Festival

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Director
Miguel Picazo
Year
1985
Run Time
118
min
Country
Spain
Language
Spanish
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It’s a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is not a lesbian “Nun sense” or another “Dark Habits” (by Almodovar, which also starred Carmen Maura, and also set in a Spanish convent, with some lesbian nuns). Perhaps, best of all, ‘Extramuros’ is realistic and frank. It isn’t shy about its characters’ sexuality. Their sexuality, and the film as a whole are genuine.
This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.
Carmen Maura, who starred as a kinky nun in Pedro Almodovar’s Dark Habits, plays another strange sister in this tale of passionate lesbian love in a 16th-century Spanish convent. Extramuros is a stunning portrait of two lovesick nuns who fake stigmata in order to rescue their community from oblivion and to fuel their own emotional love affair.
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