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Beloved
Friend (1999) |
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90
minutes
Rated: NR
Spanish with English subtitles
Country: Spain
Studio: Strand Releasing
Cast: Jose Maria Pou, Rosa
Maria Sarda, Mario Gas, David Selvas,
Irene Montala
Director: Ventura Pons
Screenwriter: Josep Maria
Benet i Jornet |
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Synopsis |
This impassioned, insightful drama
from Spain tells an emotional story
in which love and hate, friendship,
life and death are all weighed in
generous proportions.
Jaume Clara, a brilliant and
accomplished professor of medieval
literature, should be enjoying the
fruits of a life of hard work and
achievement, but he is beset with
failing health and distraught over a
passionate fixation on his
beautiful, intelligent but withdrawn
student, David. When a response to
an anonymous call-boy`s ad
unexpectedly brings David to his
door, Jaume forgoes the tempting
opportunity for easy sex with his
student and instead hatches an
elaborate and dangerous plot to
manifest his deep love, one which
risks his career, his friendship
with a beloved colleague, and the
possibility of cruelty and violence
at the hands of heartless David. The
two men`s mismatched passions and
their well-matched intellects make
for a feverish war of wills, one
from which neither one will survive
unharmed.
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