Vicente ArandaCast
Nathalie Richard Pascal Cervo Olaf Lubaszenko Loïc Maquin Xavier Beauvois Jean-Paul Dermont
Plot
In 1950s Madrid, a soldier is torn between his fiancée and his landlady, and the triangle of passion and murder ends in tragedy, in a dark, erotic film based on a true crime.
Sinekatalog’s take
A dark and erotic period thriller.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.3 / 10 (185 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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