Luna Caliente
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: World cinema, Thriller
Year: 2009
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Eduard Fernández, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Héctor Colomé, José Coronado, Mary Carmen Ramírez
Luna Caliente (Spanish: Hot Moon) is a 2009 Spanish film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, starring Eduard Fernández and Thaïs Blume. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Argentine author Mempo Giardinelli. While the book placed the action in the last military coup in Argentina, Aranda set the story in Spain of the 70s during the process of Burgos, which caused some of the last death sentences in Spain during Francos' regime. The plot centers on a rape that changes the lives of the aggressor and his victim. The film premiered in October 2009 at the Valladolid International Film Festival and will have wide release in 2010.
A poet who lives in exile in France because of the Franco regime (Eduard Fernandez), returns to Spain to coincide with the process of Burgos, in the autumn of 1970, which aims to put to death several people connected with the terrorist group ETA. The poet visits one of the members of the resistance and he is immediately attracted to his daughter (Thaïs Blume).
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