Les vies de Loulou

In Madrid, the teenager Lulu (Francesca Neri) has a crush on Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), who is the best friend of her brother Marcelo (Fernando Guillén Cuervo). One day, they go together to a concert and Lulu loses her virginity with Pablo. However, he travels to the United States and Lulu misses him.

When he returns, they meet each other and Pablo proposes Lulu to marry him. Soon they befriend the travesty Ely (María Barranco) and play sexual games with her. Later they have a daughter, Ines.

One day, after a party, Pablo blindfolds Lulu and proposes a threesome; when Lulu discovers that she had an incestuous relation with Marcelo, she leaves Pablo to live with Ines in an apartment. Lulu feels bored and soon she is addicted in kinky and bizarre sex with gays in the underground of Madrid. Her erotic journey descends to hell when she meets the dangerous Remy (Juan Graell) that invites her to the world of sadomasochism.

"Las Edades de Lulú" is a film by Bigas Luna immediately after the cult "Angustia" that discloses the erotic and dramatic journey of a Spanish woman to the underworld of the bizarre sex in Madrid. I saw this movie for the first time in the early 90's (last time was on 29 Aug 1999 on VHS), and today I have just seen it again on DVD and this film has not aged.

Francesca Neri is very beautiful and sexy and I did not recall that "Las Edades de Lulú" is the debut of Javier Bardem in a feature. I would like to highlight that this movie is sexually violent and perverted reaching the boundary with pornography and is only recommended for very specific audiences. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "As Idades de Lulu" ("The Ages of Lulu")

This early (1990) major feature from Bigas Luna is the one which – not surprisingly – got him noticed. It is an uncompromising study of sexuality, exploring desires which most directors would shy away from – on and probably off the camera. Italian actress Francesca Neri plays the lead character. It's an erotic, uninhibited performance, taking Lulu from an innocent virgin with a crush on her brother's friend to a woman so desperate for carnal gratification that she trawls bars looking for men with which to have three-way sex. For some, the film's frankness – masturbation, homosexual sex and cunnilingus – and exploration of everything from transsexual sex to incest might bring it close to pornography. But it is refreshing to see these challenging areas of sex dealt with by a competent director and good cast of actors. It hints at the themes which would run through Luna's later work, such as Jamon, Jamon and Golden Balls but without the quirky humour of those films. Slightly exhausting, perhaps taking on too much of the dark side of sexuality.

Boundaries are there to be broken ... or at least stretched. This movie right here does not take prisoners (pun intended). And it does not care about being sensitive. In some ways it might feel like cliche, but that does not mean it's an easy watch.

Contrary this is quite hard to watch and if you are squeamish almost near impossible. And while some may find certain things titilating (there's a lot of nudity here), others may take "offense" that there is also a lot of male nudity and themes they don't approve of (homosexuality, transsexuality, bisexuality and so forth). So whereever you come from, this movie does not care if you will be offended, it just does its thing.

And the losing of innocense (literally and metaphorically speaking) is quite a sight to behold. Like other things, sex can become an addiction and there's more here than just shock value. Creepy, violent and not compromising ...

How the hell did the great actor Javier Bardem agree to work in this piece of garbage. He is in a couple of graphic sex scenes with bothe men and women.

Francesca Neri is beautiful and plays the title character Lulu from the age of fifteen(Neri was twenty-five) when she hooks up with a much older friend of her brother and within the first ten minutes, Pablo has her sitting in a chair while he proceeds to shave her private area with a razor. I am astounded that this was released as a mainstream film.

The pair are constantly in heat and Lulu gives birth to a daughter. Pablo has a threesome and Lulu leaves and becomes fascinated by the sex lives of gay men and joins in their couplings.

Please avoid this trash.

As some films those has been a dime for cinephiles here another nugget to pin as favourite on the board. The actors very keenly learned acting and staged it with a good practice of reading. Yeah they nailed it.

I have been shocked and stunned by saw "Love (2015)" by Gaspar noe and thought he was the first to break the laws of film certifications but now I'm struct between the melodies and cinematography in this film. I even said to myself that "we found father of noe"

This must be one of the inspiration for Gaspar. It's obvious. And in 1990's period oh my god I couldn't think how mature the writers and the Director was.

Plus I donno why it got so low rating for a monumental modern script. Well if it would be screen now I'm solid this would reach every laptops on the movie lovers