A horny housewife, a sexless Frenchman, and the hottest pharmacist in Madrid walk into a bar...
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.
Acting
Amparo Soler Leal's desperate, hilarious longing
Costume
Malena's increasingly bold seventies wardrobe evolution
Director
Roberto Bodegas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Spain's 'destape' era—filmmakers pushing Franco-era sexual censorship to its absolute limit.
Rufus (Lucien) was actually French, cast for authentic awkwardness opposite Soler Leal's Spanish fire.
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