Más que amor, frenesí (1996)

Directors:

Alfonso Albacete
Miguel Bardem
(más)

Writers:

Alfonso Albacete (writer)
Miguel Bardem (writer)
(más)

Release Date:

15 noviembre 1996 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Thriller

Frase comercial:

...existen otras cosas aparte del sexo?

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Casual Sex | Drag Queen | Drugs | Homosexuality | Nightclub

Awards:

3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Blood, sex and bodily fluids - outrage to the max!!

Cast

Nancho Novo	...	Max
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo	...	Mónica
Ingrid Rubio	...	Yeye
Beatriz Santiago	...	María
Gustavo Salmerón	...	Alberto
Javier Manrique	...	Luis
Javier Albalá	...	Álex
Liberto Rabal	...	David
Bibiana Fernández	...	Cristina (as Bibí Andersen)
Juan Diego Botto	...	Carlos
Daniel Mirabal	...	Divva
Juanfra Becerra	...	Doly
Paloma Tabasco	...	Jacky
Nuria Gallardo	...	Clara
Carlos Bardem	...	Miguel
Amanda	...	Mujer madura
Ernesto Alterio	...	Marcos
Maite Pastor	...	Raquel
César Vea	...	Julio
Blanca Sanromán	...	Elsa
María Esteve	...	Chica 1
Mónica Bardem	...	Chica 2
La Calva	...	Ciberpunk
Carlos Olivares	...	Portero
José Manuel Cervino
Fernando Colomo	...	Fernando
Penélope Cruz
Antonio de la Torre
Pepón Nieto
Amelia Ochandiano
Luca Iezzi	...	Coreógrafo
Miriam Akinfenwa	...	Go-go
Javier Albacete	...	Go-go
Jesús Llorente	...	Go-go
Elena Martín	...	Go-go
Raquel Roca	...	Go-go
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Javier Bardem
Diossa
Malyzzia

Dirigida por
Alfonso Albacete
Miguel Bardem
David Menkes

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
Alfonso Albacete		writer
Miguel Bardem		writer
David Menkes		writer

Producida por
Fernando Colomo	....	producer
Beatriz de la Gándara	....	producer

Música original por
Juan Bardem

Fotografía por
Néstor Calvo

Montaje por
Miguel Ángel Santamaría

Casting
Amelia Ochandiano

Diseño de producción por
Alain Bainée

Dirección artística
Alain Bainée

Diseño de vestuario por
Paloma López
Vito

Departamento de maquillaje
Almudena Fonseca	....	makeup artist
Pablo Robledo	....	makeup artist
Rosana Rodríguez	....	assistant makeup artist
Juan Valverde	....	hair stylist

Dirección de producción
Julio Febrero	....	assistant production manager
Laura Ibarra	....	assistant production manager
Félix Rodríguez	....	production manager
Ana Velilla	....	assistant production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Juan Gautier	....	assistant director trainee
Ana Hernando	....	assistant director (as Ana C. Hernando)
Luis Oliveros	....	assistant director

Art Department
José M. Canencia	....	property master
Estíbaliz Sáez	....	assistant set decorator

Departamento de sonido
José Antonio Bermúdez	....	sound mixer
Sergio Bürmann	....	boom operator
Pepín Fernández	....	sound editor
Antonio García	....	sound effects
Daniel Goldstein	....	sound
Manuel Moreno	....	sound effects
Ricardo Steinberg	....	sound (as Steinberg)

Efectos especiales
Reyes Abades	....	special effects
Ana Casanova	....	special effects
Ricardo G. Elipe	....	special effects
Úrsula García	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Paulino Alonso	....	lighting technician
Vladimiro Amor	....	electrician
Juan A. Caso	....	electrician
Alfredo Díaz	....	grip
Ángel Gómez	....	electrician
Ángel Granell	....	electrician
Juan M. Graves	....	electrician
Teresa Isasi	....	still photographer
Asunción de Juan	....	assistant camera trainee
Mónica Ochoa	....	photographer
Eduardo Pérez Climent	....	camera operator
Juan Carlos Rodríguez	....	chief lighting technician
Gema Velasco	....	video technician
Ángel Yebra	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
María José Lebrero	....	assistant costume designer (as Maria J. Lebrero)
Teresa Mora	....	wardrobe (as Teresa P. Mora)

Editorial Department
Pepe Pastor	....	assistant editor
Alfonso Sevilla	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Jorge E. Bauche	....	musician
Víctor Correa	....	musician
Alberto Estébanez	....	musician: keyboard
Juan Luis Gallego	....	musician
Manuel Guillén	....	musician
Josep Lladó	....	music producer
Eduardo Posada	....	music producer
Enrique D. Santacecilia	....	musician
Francisco de Tapia	....	musician
María Tellechea	....	musician
Xasqui Ten	....	music producer
Mansfield T.	....	music producer

Transportation Department
Ángel Frutos	....	driver
Andrés García Moreno	....	driver (as Andrés García)
Juan Manchego	....	driver
Ángel Megino	....	transportation
Ángel Prada	....	driver

Otros miembros del equipo
María Bardem	....	script supervisor
Lourdes Barroso	....	unit publicist
Yolanda Bergareche	....	title designer
Dave Burton	....	title designer
Juan Cook	....	advisor
Adolfo Cora	....	production accountant
Purificación García	....	production secretary
Alfonso Jadraque	....	location manager
Carmen Mansilla	....	sketcher
Javier Martínez Calvo	....	title designer
James Nathan	....	dialogue supervisor
Raúl Pascual	....	unit publicist
Ángel Prada	....	continuity
José Serrano	....	general manager
Trini Solano	....	public relations
Antonio Villares	....	administrator
Bárbara Yacobi	....	production secretary

Thanks
Ceferino Albacete	....	special thanks
Charo Azcona	....	special thanks
Guillermina Baeza	....	special thanks
Evelyn Botellas	....	special thanks
Javier Cámara	....	special thanks
Jorge Gómez	....	special thanks
Manuel de Gotor	....	special thanks
Hermes Govantes	....	special thanks
Laura Gutiérrez	....	special thanks
Jorge-Denis	....	dedicatee
Philippe Laporte	....	special thanks
Nathalie Leon	....	special thanks
David Menkes Jr.	....	special thanks
Samuel Menkes	....	special thanks
Charo Retuerto	....	special thanks
Joaquín Roa	....	special thanks
Sonia Sanz	....	special thanks
Rosa Maria Sardà	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Canal+ España
• Fernando Colomo Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.
• Películas Freneticas
• Televisión Española (TVE)

Distributors

• Alta Films (Spain)
• Jour de Fête Films (1999) (USA) (subtitled)

También conocida como:

Not Love, Just Frenzy

Duración:

125 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Company:

Canal+ España

Movie Connections:

References Gone with the Wind (1939)

Soundtrack:

Llorando por tí

Blood, sex and bodily fluids - outrage to the max!!

NOT LOVE, JUST FRENZY (Más que Amor Frenesí)

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound format: Dolby Digital

Staff and customers of a popular Madrid nightclub - gay, straight and everything in between - are thrown into disarray by the arrival of a stranger (Nancho Novo) whose life is threatened by a corrupt cop (Javier Manrique) seeking to connect him with a brutal murder.

Despite a lack of focus in its early stages and a couple of disappointing plot twists, this outrageous romp plays Almodóvar at his own game and comes up trumps. Co-written and directed by Miguel Bardem and debut filmmakers Alfonso Albarete and David Menkes (I LOVE YOU BABY), the movie features some of Spain's sexiest rising stars - including popular actress/TV presenter Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (STORIES FROM THE KRONEN) as a trampy nightclub owner with the hots for Novo, and Gustavo Salmerón (99.9) as the eternal party-boy who dumps his deceitful boyfriend Javier Albalá (SECOND SKIN) to pursue an impossible infatuation with the unattainable, ultra-beautiful Liberto Rabal (LIVE FLESH) - and includes cameo appearances by Penelope Cruz (blink and you'll miss her), Javier Bardem (ditto) and Almodovar favorite Bibi Andersen as a lesbian pimp (!).

The script combines sure-fire commercial elements (unrequited love, sexual betrayal, nymphomania, etc.) with layers of melodramatic excess (the gigolo who swears he was framed for murder, the psycho cop determined to nail him come what may), and the movie indulges an exhilarating sexual candor, including a heated exchange between Salmerón and Albalá in a shower, Novo and Guillén Cuervo enjoying a wild encounter in front of a bank of video monitors, and - in the film's most romantic episode - Rabal's full-frontal nude scene on a rooftop at midnight. All in all, voyeurs will certainly get their money's worth! About halfway through, however, the movie surrenders its 'gay' credentials and descends into mere 'camp', dropping several interesting plot threads to focus on Manrique's increasingly psychotic behavior as he launches a series of violent assaults on the primary female characters (the final sequence is a jaw-dropping combination of sex, death and bodily fluids!). Still, the movie is well-played by an engaging young cast (watch out for the lovely shot of Guillén Cuervo sweeping down a crowded high street in a billowing Victorian-style party dress!), and most viewers will be impressed by the filmmakers' refusal to compromise their eccentric ideals.

(Spanish dialogue)