Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club

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Canciones de Amor en Lolita's Club

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Directed by Vicente Aranda
Produced by Andres Vicente Gomez
Written by Vicente Aranda
Starring Eduardo Noriega,
Flora Martínez,
Belen Fabra
Hector Colome
Music by José Nieto
Cinematography José Luis Alcaine
Release date(s) Flag of Spain 30 November 2007
Running time 101 min.
Language Spanish
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Canciones de Amor en Lolita's Club (English: Love Songs at Lolita’s Club) is a 2007 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Eduardo Noriega and Flora Martínez. The film is a violent drama, set in Alicante. This is Aranda’s fourth film adaptation of a novel written by Juan Marsé after: La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro (1980); Si te dicen que caí (1989) and El Amante Bilingüe (1993).

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Raul Fuentes, a violent police officer who works in Vigo is placed on unpaid leave after he has beaten, Moncho Tristan, the son of a local drug trafficker. Mazueras, a snitch from the drug mafia ring, tells Raul that members of the drug clan are looking for him to kill him. Mazueras strikes a deal with Raul. He would give him some documents that prove the involment of the Tistran family in drug trafficking and prostitution if Raul reveals the story after he has left the country. Raul rejects the deal violently. He decides to leave the incident on hold and travels to Alicante where his family lives.

Raul visit, the first in two years, takes his family by surprise. His strange father, Jose. is not thrill to see his son, who has always been cold towards him. Olga, Jose’s wife, has always been secretly in love with his stepson who she had met even before she met her now husband. Raul is not close to his family with the only exception of his twin brother Valentin, who is mentally disable and is the opposite of his brother, sweet, soft and well liked by everyone. When Raul finds out that his brother is working in a nightclub and has falling in love with one of the prostitutes he gets very upset and follows him. In Lolitas’s club he meets, Milena, the prostitute that is his brother love interest. The relationship between Milena and the two brothers is further complicated with the links that the policeman and the prostitute have with the mafia.

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  • Eduardo Noriega - Raul\ Valentin
  • Flora Martínez - Milena
  • Belen Fabra - Olga
  • Hector Colome - Jose
  • Maria - Carla Sanchez
  • Carmen – Sonia Madrid
  • Simon - Vicente Gil
  • Djasmina – Yohana Cobo

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