Sexo por compasión

I wanted to see this film, because I have read very good reviews. They said it was a hilarious comedy filled with sarcasm. I saw the movie and didn't laugh once. It was a sad movie, talking about people stuck with a reality they don't like and they try to change it. Or that is what I thought the movie was about. It confused me and I think the film doesn't have a message that is clear. Maybe the director and the writer didn't exactly know what they wanted to say in the first place. Anyway it is a good movie, with very good performances...I liked it.

This is a highly unique film, one I would consider more "expressionist" than surreal in style. The acting is wonderful, the art direction good, and the message elusively simple. The heroine - incredible as it sounds - makes sex with essentially every man in town: not once, but regularly. As a result, she attracts a congregation far larger than that of the local church, which is a story in itself. But what draws the men to bed with this plump, good-natured middle-aged woman who suffers an "excess of goodness"? Her compassion, her understanding, her charitable advice - all of it free.

In brief, while churchly figures may strive to avoid sin and devote their spirits to meditation and repentance, such self-centered acts do little to guide or succor or console their fellow man. This woman discovers - and wow!, with such a human and comic touch - that more can actually be achieved if we only sin a little.

It's difficult to say more without disclosing the whole plot - though actually, even if one knew the story in advance in full detail, the timing and expressive acting still would make it fun.

I'll add for clarity that this film contains no nudity and no foul language that I can recall (unless a reader would consider, e.g., "gilipollas" foul), and that it is "adult" most of all in the sense that only relatively thoughtful, intelligent people are likely to understand it - be they children or senior citizens.

Okay - one little gripe. I didn't really appreciate the humorous intrusion of the talk-show host for Univision's "Hasta en las Mejores Familias" or whatever the program's called. She appears as the enraged madam of the local brothel. I'm sorry. Really, I am. But if it'd been anyone from Despierta America, like the charming news person from Honduras, or Giselle or even their dog, I'd been happier. But not Mejores Familias! She was excessive.

In a small village in Spain, the middle-aged Dolores (Elisabeth Margooni) is a very good catholic woman, considered almost a saint by the villagers. However, her beloved husband Manolo (José Sancho) leaves her with the argument that she was too perfect, without any sin in her life. Dolores tries to find how she could commit a sin, and in the local bar she hears that the worst thing a woman could do to a man was to cheat him with another man. Dolores adopts the pseudonym of Lolita and has sex for compassion with all the men of the village. The local priest becomes jealous with the situation, since people compare Dolores with a saint and she raises money to rebuild the church. The small town becomes colorful and brightness with her attitude. Things change when Manolo returns to the village. This surreal movie uses the idea of the 1998 `Pleasantville', regarding to the use of black & white and colors to express the feeling of the villagers. The direction of Laura Mañá and the performance of the unknown cast are marvelous. The simple story hooks-up the attention of the viewer along the 109 minutes without being boring in any moment. The soundtrack is another magnificent attraction of this wonderful film. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): ` Sexo Por Compaixão' (` Sex For Compassion')

This is the story of a drab and gray Mexican village, where life is boring. The main character is a wife, who mourns the unexpected leave of her husband. She learns that he left her because maybe she is a person without sins. So she wants to do terrible sins in the hope that her husband may return. Adultery proves to be one of the most terrible sins. Thus, she decides to sleep with other men. But miraculously, she helps the sad men who visit her. After sleeping with her, they find new energy in life and the dreary village comes to life again. At this point in the movie, the colour returns to the movie too. In the beginning the movie was shot in gray-colors, but now it turns to glorious colors. The movie is done as a comedy with plenty of laughs and funny situations, but there's a serious undertone of breaking through the macho-culture of Mexico. I found the movie very enjoyable and lighthearted. Recommended.

This interesting film deals with Dolores, Elisabeth Margoni, a 40 and some year old woman whose hubby , Jose Sancho, left her because of he can not stand her big generosity. Dolores runs a bar along with Floren, Mariola Fuentes, and she dedicates her life to work by helping people, which is to go to bed with other men of the little town such as Damian Alcazar, Alex Angulo, among others . Dolores, now called Lolita, turns to be so famous, thanks to her peculiar charity, that all men seek out her particular services. Things go wrong when her husband returns to the town and he learns her surprising activities.

Joyful and agreeable Spanish, Mexican film shot in Tlaxcala, Mexico. This a vibrant and feeling flick with enjoyable and bewildering scenes, it gets together drama and comedy : dramedy, though it is more comedy than drama. Despite its adult issue is by far an erotic film, but a wistful comedy and rated Parents Guide. At the beginning it is slow moving, sad and strange, but later on, it grows joyous and cheerful. This warm film is pretty well , even if has a silly and uneven plot flowing throughout, containing an unlikely and incredible premise, as a mature and kind woman who works to charity, providing happiness to a little town immersed in sadness by going to bed with all villagers. To be said that through her compassionate sex she brings the color to the town, in fact the first part of the movie is photographed in black and white and subsequently colour cinematography by cameraman Hofmann. The picture packs ridiculous incidents, light drama, brief laughs, confusion and mayhem. The flick follows the wake of Mexican and South American style : Magical Realism.

The movie was compellingly produced by Filmax : Carlos Fernandez, Julio Fernandez who have financed a lot of the Spanish cinema hits as Sleep tight, Transsiberian, The machinist, The way, Summer camp, Bullying, Rec saga, The returned, and cartoon, 3D films as Raton Perez, El Cid, Ginsaku, Donkeyxote . Being well and professionally directed by Laura Maña. She is a notorious secondary actress playing in films as Romasanta, Stand-by, Nowhere, Libertarias, Pasion Turca, Teta y luna. And she has directed a few prestigious films as Concepcion Arenal, Clara Campoamor, La vida empieza hoy, To die in San Hilario ,and Palabras encadenadas. This Sexo Por Compasion won awards in various Festivals such as : Rotterdam International Festival 2001 to best first work to Laura Maña, Guadalajara International Festival, Malaga Festival , Miamic Hispanic Film Festival and several others.