Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2011 · 90 min · Director: Henning Carlsen
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To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, who accustomed to intimacy with whores since childhood, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 30%, Sadness 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Melancholy30%
- Sadness25%
- Empathy20%
- Love15%
- Hope10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Sadness, Empathy. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.
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Cast
Casilda Armenta (young)
Damiana / maid (young)
Damiana / maid (old)
Marco Tulio / Newspaper manager
Alfredo / Ximena's father
Details
- Directed by
- Henning Carlsen
- Written by
- Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Claude Carrière, Henning Carlsen
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2011
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Country
- Mexico, Spain, Denmark, United States
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Melancholy
- Data updated
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