Cinema
Cuentos inmorales
José Carlos Huayhuaca · 1978
Synopsis
In a house of the Lima bourgeoisie, a fourteen-year-old boy who lives between his mother and his aunts discovers desire by watching the women around him and the maid; a young man fresh from a picturesque sales course roams the city without convincing anyone; a delinquent who wants to make his mark rules over a wretched neighbourhood that admires him; and former schoolmates meet in a bar for a long night of drinking.
Context
Four directors share the episodes: El príncipe, by Pili Flores-Guerra, after a story by Oswaldo Reynoso; Mercadotecnia, by Augusto Tamayo, on a story by Jorge García Bustamante; Los amigos, by Francisco Lombardi, and Intriga familiar, by José Carlos Huayhuaca, these last two written by their directors. José Zavala Rey de Castro produced the film for Inca Films, and Flores-Guerra handled the cinematography and editing. Released on 30 November 1978, it opened what came to be called the urban cinema of Lima; Augusto Tamayo saw in it, forty years later, the first film to show the daily life of the city and its inhabitants, between drama and humour.
Who it is for
In Spanish. Four independent stories, each by a different director, which together make up a portrait of Lima.
Prizes and reception
Special mention at the Cartagena festival in 1979 for Augusto Tamayo's episode, Mercadotecnia.
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