Núria Espert

Spain was still under the boots of Franco and his henchmen, good Spanish movies were made in France...or Mexico. The vision of the Spanish civil war was ubiquitous and Arrabal's movies tried to exorcise the past.

The film is simply structured as five lengthy dialogues over the course of an evening. The first three are between either Rosa or Ramon and one of the renters. The fourth is between Rosa and a relative that does not live in the building. The fifth is an epilogue where Rosa and Ramon engage in revelations that answer some of the questions raised by the previous dialogues. (imdb.com)

A future theatre actress who is trying to prepare herself inside out for her professional debut interviews three great actresses: Gloria, Assumpta and María. (imdb)

Maria Lopez, a 30 years old married woman, has an old appendectomy scar and another fresh scar produced by cesarean section. Maria is a character created in a drunken afternoon through the neighborhoods of the port of Barcelona. (imdb)

The title refers to the common time for bullfights, and the story involves an ambitious young torero on his way up the ladder of success, and an older one on his way down, a bitter view of the popular Spanish spectacle. (imdb)

In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on his friend Andrés, the husband of his beloved María Rosa. After being imprisoned Andrés, Marsal becomes the protector of María Rosa while waiting for the development of events. - (imdb)