We'd gladly give ourselves over to the literate if chatty script and the generous helpings of Bulgarian beefcake, but our interest flags the moment Biba puts his clothes back on.
Bulgarian Lovers(Los novios búlgaros)
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Spain · 2003
Rated R · 1h 41m
Director Eloy de la Iglesia
Starring Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Dritan Biba, Pepón Nieto, Roger Pera
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
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A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
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For his first feature in 15 years, Spanish filmmaker Eloy de la Iglesia has made a witty, unsentimental class comedy.
Full of charm, entertaining enough as it unfolds, good looking, but not especially memorable in retrospect.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Ultimately suffers from an overabundance of plot and a paucity of depth, but it does provide some fleeting comic pleasures along the way.
All in all it's pretty lurid, but it delivers what it promises.
De la Iglesia's years of filmmaking experience are obvious in the film's formal touches -- his transitions between scenes and time frames are smooth and very stylish.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Sly, swift, succinct -- and very sexy.
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
The gay sex scenes that punctuate Eloy de la Iglesia's limp Spanish comedy, Bulgarian Lovers, are frequent and graphic, and it often seems as if the lackluster story exists solely to showcase them.
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
Eloy de la Iglesia, who directed Bulgarian Lovers, has a light and witty touch, reminiscent of his countryman Pedro Almodóvar...But he needed a better screenplay.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Superbly acted, without a trace of coyness and with considerable heat.
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