Fuego (1969 film)
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| - | '''Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo Tito''' ([[July 9]] [[1935]] in [[Concordia, Entre Ríos|Concordia]], [[Entre Ríos Province|Entre Ríos]], Argentina) is a retired [[Argentine actress]], and [[Model (person)|model]] and a [[sex symbol]] of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. | + | '''''Fuego''''' (''Fire'') is a 1969 [[Cinema of Argentina|Argentine]] [[sexploitation film|sexploitation]] [[drama film]] written, produced and directed by [[Armando Bó]] and starring [[Isabel Sarli]], Bó and [[Alba Mujica]]. |
| - | Nicknamed ''La Coca'' (just a family alias until the press notes), Sarli was discovered by filmmaker [[Armando Bo]] after she became Miss Argentina in 1955 (who she married) and became the star of his films, starting with [[El Trueno entre las hojas]] in 1956. Her [[nude scene]]s in this --a first in Argentine cinema-- and their subsequent [[sexploitation]] movies were highly criticized and condemned in Argentina. In spite of [[censorship]] and [[persecution]], she became an international [[Latin America]]n star, filming in [[Brazil]], [[Uruguay]], [[Paraguay]], [[Mexico]], [[Panama]] and [[Venezuela]], and films like [[Fuego (1969 film)]] and [[Fiebre]] (1970) reached the American and European markets. | + | The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker [[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]], who presented it as his [[Maryland Film Festival#John Waters picks|annual selection]] within the 2002 [[Maryland Film Festival]]. It was also a featured film in episode three of the 2006 [[Here TV|Here!]] network original series ''[[John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You]]''. |
| + | ==Plot== | ||
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| + | Laura is a young woman who is dedicated to bathe in the river, near her house, accompanied by Andrea, her servant who fell in love with her. Carlos, a man with a lot of money, spies Laura bathing in the river, and as his servant caresses her by the legs, then he ends up falling in love with her. | ||
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| + | Later, at a party for important people, Laura meets Carlos, who gets carried away by her beauty and looks for a place to be completely alone. Among them arise a love relationship and a marriage that does not make Laura very happy, because she can not resist having sex with other men. | ||
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| + | When Laura walks down the street, a sack that covers her entire body, but in reality is that she is naked and shows her breasts to several men who looked at her and even walk with one who pursues her. In addition, she is discovered by Carlos, when he was with another man in his bed. The problems begin for her when she realizes that she is sick, and is excited at any time, that is the reason she visits a doctor. | ||
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| + | Carlos and Laura make a trip to New York, while this is submitted to a business, Laura attracts everyone who was in that city. So then, they return to Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Laura can not control herself and cheats on her husband with other men, which later causes her to feel guilty and make the decision to commit suicide. | ||
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| + | Laura commits suicide, throwing herself from a mountain into the river, Carlos is alone and very sad visiting her grave, but the final scene of the film is when he shoots himself with a gun and dies. Laura appears as a ghost, and finally sees Carlos who is also in her condition, the two practically dead and kissing. | ||
| + | == Cast == | ||
| + | * [[Isabel Sarli]] as Laura | ||
| + | * [[Alba Mujica]] as Andrea | ||
| + | * [[Armando Bo]] as Carlos | ||
| - | Bo later insisted in casting her in naturalistic melodramas. After his death in 1981, Isabel Sarli retired from the cinema industry altogether but came back in the mid-nineties for Jorge Polaco's film [[La Dama Regresa]]. | ||
| - | ==Filmography== | ||
| - | Actress | ||
| - | *La dama regresa (dir. Jorge Polaco, [[1996]]) | ||
| - | *Una viuda descocada ([[1980]]) | ||
| - | *Insaciable ([[1979]]) | ||
| - | *Último amor en [[Tierra del Fuego]] ([[1979]]) | ||
| - | *Una mariposa en la noche ([[1977]]) | ||
| - | *La diosa virgen (Sudáfrica/ Argentina, [[1975]]) | ||
| - | *El sexo y el amor ([[1974]]) | ||
| - | *Intimidades de una cualquiera ([[1974]]) | ||
| - | *Furia infernal ([[1973]]) | ||
| - | *Fiebre ([[1972]]) | ||
| - | *Éxtasis tropical ([[1969]]) | ||
| - | *Embrujada (1969) | ||
| - | *Desnuda en la arena (1969) Alicia | ||
| - | *[[Fuego (1969 film)|Fuego]] ([[1968]]) Laura | ||
| - | *Carne (1968) Delicia | ||
| - | *La mujer de mi padre (1968) | ||
| - | *La señora del Intendente ([[1967]]) Flor Tetis | ||
| - | *La tentación desnuda ([[1966]]) Sandra Quesada | ||
| - | *Días calientes (1966) | ||
| - | *La mujer del zapatero ([[1965]]) | ||
| - | *La diosa impura ([[1964]]) Laura | ||
| - | *La leona (1964) | ||
| - | *Lujuria tropical (1964) | ||
| - | *[[Setenta veces siete]] ([[1962]]) | ||
| - | *La burrerita de Ypacaraí (1962) | ||
| - | *Favela ([[1961]]) | ||
| - | *Setenta veces siete (Argentina, sin dir. de Armando Bó (de Torre Nilsson) 1961) | ||
| - | *...Y el demonio creó a los hombres ([[1960]]) | ||
| - | *India (1960) Ansisé | ||
| - | *Sabaleros ([[1959]]) | ||
| - | *El trueno entre las hojas ([[1958]]) | ||
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Fuego (Fire) is a 1969 Argentine sexploitation drama film written, produced and directed by Armando Bó and starring Isabel Sarli, Bó and Alba Mujica.
The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters, who presented it as his annual selection within the 2002 Maryland Film Festival. It was also a featured film in episode three of the 2006 Here! network original series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You.
Plot
- Google translation
Laura is a young woman who is dedicated to bathe in the river, near her house, accompanied by Andrea, her servant who fell in love with her. Carlos, a man with a lot of money, spies Laura bathing in the river, and as his servant caresses her by the legs, then he ends up falling in love with her.
Later, at a party for important people, Laura meets Carlos, who gets carried away by her beauty and looks for a place to be completely alone. Among them arise a love relationship and a marriage that does not make Laura very happy, because she can not resist having sex with other men.
When Laura walks down the street, a sack that covers her entire body, but in reality is that she is naked and shows her breasts to several men who looked at her and even walk with one who pursues her. In addition, she is discovered by Carlos, when he was with another man in his bed. The problems begin for her when she realizes that she is sick, and is excited at any time, that is the reason she visits a doctor.
Carlos and Laura make a trip to New York, while this is submitted to a business, Laura attracts everyone who was in that city. So then, they return to Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Laura can not control herself and cheats on her husband with other men, which later causes her to feel guilty and make the decision to commit suicide.
Laura commits suicide, throwing herself from a mountain into the river, Carlos is alone and very sad visiting her grave, but the final scene of the film is when he shoots himself with a gun and dies. Laura appears as a ghost, and finally sees Carlos who is also in her condition, the two practically dead and kissing.
Cast
- Isabel Sarli as Laura
- Alba Mujica as Andrea
- Armando Bo as Carlos
