He works in mysterious ways.

"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.

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.

First-time feature director Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73 scooped four top awards at Spain's sixth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, which ended Saturday night (April 25-May 3). The 1970's-set ...

“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.

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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 ...

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, ...

Dir: Pablo Berger. Spain-Denmark. 2003. 90mins. A simpatico local comedy, Torremolinos 73 swept last week's Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, winning best film, director, actor and actress awards. Like ...

Spain, in the 1970s. Alfredo López is an encyclopedia salesman tired of his job. Together with his wife Carmen, he decides to get into the pornography business ...

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 ...