![]() ![]() She had been uneasy about her first film in English, as she told Mann in the Los Angeles Times interview. Some are dead."īraga did admit that the success of Kiss of the Spider Woman surprised even her. Many of them, especially in Brazil, have disappeared. ![]() "And I say, 'Because it's important.' I have both in my life: gay people and political people, if not both in one body. As Braga told Advocate writer Lawrence Ferber several years later, at the time, "Some people would say, 'Why do a movie with a gay man and political prisoner in a cell?'" she recalled. Kiss of the Spider Woman was a film described as "tense, charged with intellectual energy and witty with the dark humor of despair" as well as "mesmerizing" by People critic Ralph Novak. Braga plays Leni in the fantasy sequences, but also portrays another character who exists in Molina's imagination, the Spider Woman, as well as a third-Valentin's former lover, Marta. Molina entertains Valentin with tales of Leni Lamaison, a bygone movie star of unparalleled beauty. Hurt played Molina, a gay man jailed in a Latin American country for child molestation his cell-mate, Valentin (Raul Julia), is a political prisoner. Again, the movie became one of the most critically acclaimed international releases of that year, and even won Braga's co-star, William Hurt, the Academy Award for best actor. Her star rose higher with the release in 1985 of Kiss of the Spider Woman, her first English-language project and based on a novel from Manuel Puig. ![]()
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