Amantes and Other Films
Amantes has elements from Double Indemnity; Luisa also frequently wears dark glasses like the character played by Barbara Stanwyck in that Film. There are similarities to François Truffaut’s La Femme d'à côté, another amour fou film in which a lame older woman own story foretells the tragic ends.
Vicente Aranda’s cold style to unrestrained passions has also been compare to the similar approach to passion in Ingmar Bergman’s films. The American movie To Die For that was inspired by the Pamela Smart case, the most famous crime in New Hampshire history, was compared to the similar plot of Amantes.
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