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MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES

ERINDRINGEN OM MINE VEMODIGE LUDERE

By Henning CARLSEN

VOSTAO - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2010

Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, and with original score from PAN’S LABYRINTH-composer Javier Navarrete. In this Mexican tale director Henning Carlsen shows us all that love has no age.

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- MEXICO, DENMARK
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Henning CARLSEN
- Writer(s)
- Henning CARLSEN, Jean Claude CARRIERE
- Cast
- Emilio ECHEVARRIA, Geraldine CHAPLIN, Angela MOLINA, Olivia MOLINA, Paola MEDINA
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-167D-0000-Q-0000-0000-X
- Producer(s)
- Raquel GUAJARDO, Leonardo VILLARREAL, Nina CRONE
- Synopsis
- El Sabio (Emilio Echevarría), an old critic at a Caribbean newspaper, has spent all his life as a bachelor. As a child he idolized his mother to such a degree that after her death he could never attach himself seriously to any other woman. At twelve he, by mistake, paid his first visit to a brothel – an act frequently repeated throughout his lifetime. On the eve of his 90th birthday he decides to give himself ”a night of mad love with a young virgin”. An encounter with an innocent young girl (Paola Medina) is set up by the madam of a brothel (Geraldine Chaplin) which he used to visit when he was younger. Before he turns 91 he goes through an emotional drama that includes enough love, hate, jealousy, murder and disappointments to be the death of people younger than el Sabio.