The Ages Of Lulu Reviews

There has been some exciting and innovative cinema to have come out of Spain in recent years. Whilst there was a storm of controversy about Lulu when first released it is now difficult to see why. It is, essentially, a story about sexual power and indeed something of an analogy of the shifting state of gender domination. It is an interesting movie initially with good performances from its main characters. However, the final third of the film whilst paradoxically containing the most explicit scenes becomes the most predictable and formalistic of the whole film. By then you start wondering just who it is the main female lead reminds you of (its Linda Barker by the way) and less in the way of how the characters reached the point of perversity. There is also something of a cop out at the end that makes Lulu another simple love story with a happy ending. In the end Lulu simply tries too hard to be avant garde and finishes up in something of a mess.

Pretty slow foreign fare

An erotic tale about a young girls sexual journey. sounds promising but is in fact very boring

read the book instead

Violent, arousing, and very disturbing. It made me feel quite uneasy at times but I forced myself to watch.

Naivety, love and exploitation

I had so looked forward to this film, but it has left me feeling perplexed.

Its themes of naivety, love and exploitation revolve around a couple in love and their sexual enlightenment. All leading to a disturbing conclusion.

Superb characterisation support difficult plot twists. One for Bigas Luna fans!

Brutal and harsh this film may well make you feel very uncomfortable, not one to sit down with the parents...unless they are the inlaws.

This movie is the closedt thing to sado masocistic pornography you'll get in a mainstream film. It convincingly depicts the "slide" of a young woman from virginity and loving sex into a dark world of impersonal, some would say, perverse physical encounters. Not the film you'd suggest ofr a first date or an evening in with your mother, but worth seeing.

I can find no words to describe my feelings about this film. At first I thought that it pushed over the boundaries of good taste. But then that is what art is all about. It is not a comfortable film th view and it would have benefited from a few more light moments and some humour

don't bother!

Pile of p*o!!It was strange at first with the relationship between Lulu & her brother's friend and it got weirder as the film went on???

Not for me

Eroticy story. Foriegn subtitles. Pretty bad really!

yes yes yes

yes yes yes yes yes