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The Ugliest Woman in the World

Miguel bardem

Spain1999 100min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

It’s New Year’s Eve, 2010 in the Federal District of Madrid in the Requblic of Spain Lt.Arribas has been called to investigate the appalling murder and mutilation of an eighty-two-year-old resident of a nursing home.
A Security camera shows that the woman was stabbed, shot, and cut up with a saw by someone dressed in a nun’s habit.
Arribas goes home and removes various prosthetics to contemplate the case. The man is bald, toothless, and possess one eye.
Later Arribas and his assistant contact a renegade scientist whose genetic operations have turned Lola Otero from the ugliest woman in the world to one of the most beautiful. But what is causing her to kill?
Arribas must race against time to capture Lola before she turns year’s Miss Spain Pageant into a ‘Fantastic Last Party’. Arribas, though he feels sympathy for his fellow monstrosity, is sure this party will be a brutal one.

Diretor

Miguel bardem

He directed the short film< LA MADRE > and won the Gaya Award for the Bast Short Film of the Spanish Cinema(1995). As the masochist he is, he went on directing and embarked in the adventure of directing< MAS QUE AMOR FRENESI >. After the great success of this film, he faced the new challenge of directing a production different from what we have seen before, a film difficult to forget.