Between Your Legs

Between Your Legs (Spanish: Entre las piernas) is a 1999 Spanish drama film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] It stars Javier Bardem, Victoria Abril, and Carmelo Gómez as the main characters. The story involves a Madrid screenwriter, whose life is being ruined by unauthorised circulation of his sexual fantasies on tape, and a police detective's wife who snatches quick moments with strange men.

Between Your Legs
SpanishEntre las piernas
Directed byManuel Gómez Pereira
Produced byManuel Gómez Pereira
Joaquín Oristrell
César Benítez
Written byJoaquín Oristrell
Yolanda García Serrano
Juan Luis Iborra
StarringJavier Bardem
Carmen Balagué
Victoria Abril
Music byBernardo Bonezzi
CinematographyJuan Amorós
Edited byJosé Salcedo
Distributed byColumbia TriStar Films de España
Release date
  • 22 January 1999 (1999-01-22)
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Plot

Javier, a freelance screenwriter, and Miranda, a telephonist at a radio station, meet one evening at a therapy group to combat sex addiction. Javier's wife has left him because he was tricked by a woman called Azucena into recounting his sexual fantasies over a phoneline and cassettes of his imaginary activities are on sale throughout Madrid. Miranda, while walking her dog after her husband has gone to work and her daughter to school, can't resist quick encounters with men.

Immediately attracted to one another, in the car park after the session Javier and Miranda get into the back of an abandoned car. When a corpse is found in the car next morning, the police enquiry is headed by Félix, who is Miranda's husband. He would be delighted to pin the murder onto Javier, who he has seen with Miranda.

After putting all her sleeping tablets into Félix's soup, Miranda goes with luggage and dog to the hotel where Javier is staying. While making love with her, he has a traumatic flashback. He had gone to the flat of Azucena, who was blackmailing him, and as they made love he discovered that “she” was a transvestite. Enraged beyond control at this further betrayal, he had killed “her” and put the body in the car. Going straight to the airport, Javier, Miranda and dog board a plane that looks Brazilian. Félix, having bought a puppy to replace the lost pet, meets his daughter off the school bus.

Cast

References
  1. "Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
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