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- Starring: Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, Patricia Reyes  

- Director: Sergio Arau

- Encoding: Region 1 - NTSC

- Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby

- Rated: R (Not for children, No apta para menores 17 años)

- Release Date: Feb. 15, 2005

- Run Time: 140 min.

- Languages: Spanish (Español),

- Subtitles:  English

- General: 2002 - Mexico / Spain / Portugal - 140 min.  Color.

- Genre/Type: Drama, Psychological Drama, Erotic Drama.

- Themes: Prostitutes, Crimes of Passion, Unrequited Love.   

México, años 40. Ignacio Jurado, “El Mikado” es un camarero más bien callado y solitario. Sus días transcurren entre el Café Ofelia y su colección de fotos pornográficas. Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando en su vida irrumpe Lola, una prostituta española no exenta de cierta ternura, autodestructiva e imprevisible. Entre ambos surge una relación sadomasoquista. El Mikado será capaz de cualquier cosa por hacerse merecedor del amor de Lola... Cualquier cosa, incluso matar a Franco..

Source: La Butaca

Legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein explores the mundane and sexual obsession in 1940s Mexico in his 2002 film The Virgin of Lust. Introverted Ignacio "Nacho" Jurado (Luis Felipe Tovar) spends his days waiting tables at the Cafe Ofelia and his nights amongst his voluminous porno collection. His world is turned upside-down when a prostitute named Lola (Ariadne Gil) begins hanging out at the cafe. Nacho is immediately smitten with the whore, but Lola's mind is focused on a very brutish wrestler who'll have nothing to do with her.

Lola, a natural sadist, recognizes Nacho's penchant for being dominated and she begins to fully exploit this chance to unleash her cruelty on a willing recipient. As the relationship settles into its regular perverseness, Nacho is presented with what he sees as an opportunity to capture Lola's heart completely — to become a macho revolutionary hero by assassinating Francisco Franco. The Virgin of Lust was chosen for inclusion into the Upstream program at the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival, winning a Special Mention prize from that program's jury.

Source: All Movie Guide