The Virgin of Lust

Year: 2002

Runtime: 151 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Arturo Ripstein

FantasyDramaRomance

In 1940s Vera Cruz, Nacho, an Indian busboy at Don Lázaro’s café in Hotel Ofélia, falls for Lola, an opium‑addicted, alcoholic prostitute who idolizes masked wrestler Gardenia Wilson. Warned Lola is dangerous, Nacho endures humiliation to stay near her. Lola’s sadism and Republican exiles urging her to kill Franco mix with Nacho’s “Mikado” fantasies, blurring politics and obsession.

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