Labyrinth of Passion (1982) on Netflix
NR19821h 34mComedyDramaRomance
Sexilia, a pop star in Madrid, is a sex addict in therapy. Riza, the son of the Emperor of Tiran, wears a wig and dark glasses while terrorists search for him.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.1/105,148 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
Sexilia, a pop star and sex addict in Madrid, is in psychotherapy with Susana, who is more interested in Sexilia's father, Doctor de la Peña, a gynecologist specializing in artificial insemination. Riza, the Emperor of Tiran's gay son, lives incognito in Madrid in a wig and dark glasses. Sadec, part of a group of terrorists searching for Riza, meets him and fails to recognize him. Toraya, the former emperor's ex-wife and a patient of the doctor, is now fertile and, unable to obtain the emperor's sperm, sets out to find Riza.
Cast
- Fernando Vivancoas Doctor
- Concha Grégorias Angustias
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- Ana Trigoas Nana
- Pochas Gonzalo
- Javier Pérez Gruesoas Santi
- Paco Pérez Bryanas Manuel Ángel
- José Carlos Quirósas Ali
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
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- Labyrinth of Passion was the film debut of Antonio Banderas, who played a gay terrorist gifted with a hyper-keen sense of smell that he uses to track down a prince he has fallen in love with.
- One early draft of the script had Salvador Dalí and the Pope meeting and falling passionately in love; the storyline was eventually cut from the finished film.
- Almodóvar drew on the Shah of Iran, who was still living at the time, imagining his son coming to Madrid, and on Princess Soraya, a figure in the gossip columns, who became the character Toraya.
- The film ran for ten years as a midnight screening at Madrid's Alphaville cinema, and was released in the United States, England, France and Italy only after the success of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
- Almodóvar's second feature, a massive technical improvement on his first, set the tone and style for the films that made his name.
