Sign In. Bilbao Hide Spoilers. Typical and unsettling Bigas Luna picture filled with strange happenings , twisted events , sex scenes , surrealist images , including close-ups of technological objects and erotic zones. This strong as well as sexy story is a passionate retelling and a dark story about a middle-aged man , a voyeur called Leo , Abel Folk who is really obsessed by a prostitutute , Bilbao , Isabel Pisano. Then , Leo kidnaps the gorgeous whore Bilbao with fateful results.
Full of visual images with zooms , close-up and background shots , fetishism and bizarre scenes , but including bad taste and strong sex scenes with loads of female nudism. This Spanish picture is twisted tale with suspense , trangression , cold scenes , thought-provoking characterizing about a few characters , competent realization and gloomy sets of the isolated world.
It is an overblown as well as strange drama , including surrealist elements , being screen-written by the filmmaker himself. However , the film's essential problem is its failure to generate the sort of pace drive that would forge its metaphoric patterns into edgy drama. The slow-moving storyline relies heavily on the continued activities of the starring , including a lot of sexual scenes , almost softcore , but it doesn't make boring.
In spite of , the movie results to be acceptable and compellingly realized. Bigas carries out a weird maginary , a willingness for provoking in the elements of each shot , every sequence, every space.
Being shot in 16mm and in underground style with granulated and washed-out photography. The designer Abel Folk , Bigas's fetish actor , as the sex-crazed man haunted by a whore gives a rare acting , and the veteran Maria Martin plays finely a perverted old woman with extreme sex desires , his interpretation is genuinely moving.
