Movie Description:
This groundbreaking film was the firstindependent ever to receive the top fourOscar nominations including Best Picturefor producer David Weisman, and BestDirector for Hector Babenco. Adapted byAcademy Award nominatedscreenwriter Leonard Schrader from Manuel Puig`s novel, set in a non-specific LatinAmerican country, Kiss of the Spider Woman tkaes a penetrating look at the role of sex, politics, and torture underthe oppressive right-wing regime. Thetimeless story, more relevant today thanever, follows the complex relationship between two fundamentally different men with opposite life views-building withemotional crescendo as they gradually come together in a stunning transcendental conclusion.
