"Torremolinos 73" is a pleasing, subdued take on one couple's short-lived flirtation with the 70's porn industry toward the end of the Franco regime, when cinema sex in Spain was still a cardinal sin.

“Torremolinos 73” is a pleasant surprise, a Spanish/Danish co-production that echoes its origins by adroitly mixing candid sex, cool humor and poignancy. It’s a bawdy farce done with real delicacy, a ...

MADRID — Gotham-based niche distributor First Run Features has acquired all North American rights to Spanish director Pablo Berger’s wry comedy on Spain’s porn industry under Franco, “Torremolinos 73.

“Torremolinos 73” is a movie about a happily married couple, a heart-warming and occasionally hilarious depiction of their love, their marriage, their mutual respect . . . their career as porn stars.

STARTING OUT as a wacky little comedy about a mousy Spanish couple who become unwitting porn stars, "Torremolinos 73" suddenly morphs, during the third act, into a far more sober and tender story ...

A funny and observant film based, sort-of, on actual events. And a film well worth catching. The plot involves the making of an 'educational' film about human reproduction in Spain for the ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Spain, 1973. When failed encyclopaedia salesman Alfredo (Camara) is offered the opportunity to make scientific films about human reproduction (soft-core porn, basically) to be released in Scandinavia, ...

The trouble with pornography, at least for those who aren't pornographers or porn fiends, is that it often makes people giggle like teenagers in middle-school sex-ed class—partly as a defense against ...

Torremolinos 73 has the dubious distinction of being just about the mildest porno comedy ever made. It’s like something the teenage Pedro Almodóvar might have written to shock his 10th-grade creative ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Set in the waning days of Franco's Spain, this stilted but enjoyable comedy follows the fortunes of Alfredo, a weary encyclopedia ...