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| writer = Miguel Dalmau
| writer = Miguel Dalmau
| screenplay = Joaquín Górriz <br> Miguel A Fernández <br> Sigfrid Monleón
| screenplay = Joaquín Górriz <br> Miguel A Fernández <br> Sigfrid Monleón
| story =
| based_on = the biography by Miguel Dalmau
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| starring = [[Jordi Mollà]] <br> [[Bimba Bosé]] <br> [[Àlex Brendemühl]] <br> Josep Linuesa <br>Isaac de los Reyes
| based on = the biography by Miguel Dalmau
| narrator =
| music = Joan Valvent
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| starring = [[Jordi Mollà]] <br> Bimba Bosé <br> Àlex Brendemühl <br> Josep Linuesa <br>Isaac de los Reyes
| music = Joan Valvent
| cinematography = Jose David Garcia Montero
| cinematography = Jose David Garcia Montero
| editing = Pablo Blanco
| editing = Pablo Blanco
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| distributor = Rodeo Media
| distributor = Rodeo Media
| released = 11 December 2009
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2009|12|11}}
| runtime = 112 minutes
| runtime = 112 minutes
| country = Spain
| country = Spain
| language = Spanish
| language = Spanish
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| gross = 335.848,24 € <ref>{{cite web|title='El cónsul de Sodoma' |url=http://fotogramas.esm/2010/02/07/Peliculas/El-Consul-de-Sodoma/ |access-date=15 March 2011 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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'''''The Consul of Sodom''''' ({{langx|es|'''El cónsul de Sodoma'''|links=no}}) is a 2009 Spanish film directed by [[Sigfrid Monleón]] and starring [[Jordi Mollà]]. It is a biopic of the Catalan poet [[Jaime Gil de Biedma]], based on a biography written by Miguel Dalmau.<ref name="Jenesaispop">{{cite web|title=Nominados a los Goya: 'El cónsul de Sodoma'|url=http://jenesaispop.com/2010/02/07/nominados-a-los-goya-el-consul-de-sodoma/|work=Jenesaispop|date=7 February 2010 |access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref>


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==Plot==
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'''''The Consul of Sodom''''' ({{lang-es|'''El Cónsul de Sodoma'''}}) is a 2009 [[cinema of Spain|Spanish]] film directed by [[Sigfrid Monleón]] and starring [[Jordi Mollà]]. It is a biopic of the Catalan poet [[Jaime Gil de Biedma]], based on his biography written by Miguel Dalmau.
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In 1959, Jaime Gil de Biedma, a wealthy poet from Barcelona, visits [[Manila]] on business trip as the director of the Philippine Tobacco Company. At night, he gives free rein to his homosexuality. He meets Johnny, a young man who works in an erotic nightclub, and they have sex. The poverty of Manila leaves a deep impression on Jaime and heightens his social conscience.
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==Plot==
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Jaime Gil de Biedma is a poet from Barcelona who belongs to the Catalonian bourgeoisie. By 1959, he is in[[Manila]] on business trip as director of the Philippine Tobacco Company during the day. At night, the poet gives free rein to his homosexuality. This is how he meets Johnny, a young man who works in an erotic nightclub and they have sex. The poverty of Manila makes a deep impression on Jaime and heightens his social conscience.


Back in Barcelona, the Spanish police interrogate Jaime about some of his subversive friends who are still dreaming of regime change in Spain. Ironically, he is refused membership in the Communist Party because he is gay. He visits his friend and editor Carlos Barral, and meets Juan Marsé, a young writer about to publish his first novel. At the same time as all of this, Jaime is trying to save his relationship with Luis, his lover, but although in love with him, Jaime treats Luis, who is of humble background, with contempt. After a heated argument Luis leaves him for good. Describing himself as "a Sunday poet with a Monday conscience", Jaime mixes his weekly working days for his family's company with a bohemian lifestyle on weekends. Don Luis, Jaime’s father, takes care of Jaime’s trouble with the police, but he warns his son he has to sort his life out because he is putting his family and the business in jeopardy.
Back in Barcelona, the Spanish police interrogate Jaime about his subversive friends who still dream of regime change in Spain. Jaime is refused membership in the Communist Party because he is gay. He visits his friend, editor Carlos Barral, and meets Juan Marsé, a young writer about to publish his first novel.


Jaime treats his lover Luis, who is of humble background, with contempt. After a heated argument, Luis leaves him for good. Describing himself as "a Sunday poet with a Monday conscience", Jaime works for his family's company on weekdays and lives a bohemian lifestyle on weekends. Don Luis, his father, takes care of Jaime's troubles with the police, but warns Jaime he has to sort his life out because he is putting the family and business in jeopardy.
By the mid 1960’s, society is increasingly becoming unstable and a new generation is meeting in the Bocaccio nightclub. There, Jaime meets the sexy and enigmatic Bel, a divorced woman with two kids. They quickly establishes a relationship. Bel is entangled in a bitter battle with her ex husband for the custody of her children. Bel becomes Gil de Biedma's partner in crime, they realtionship is pasionate, she is also his fellow "sense offender" and boldly the take part in sex group with two american sailors.If you are looking for whores, he tells the sailor, we are las mas putas ( the whorest). Jaime buys an apartment and asks Bel to marry him, but she turns him down: they are two free spirits getting married would condemn their relationship to failure. Overwhelmed by events, Jaime loses himself in the night and gets very drunk. That same night, Bel dies in a tragic accident. When he hears the news, Jaime becomes totally desperate and tries to take his own life. However, he manages to get back on his feet with the support of friends and family. However, Jaime will never write poetry again. At the beginning of the 1970’s, Jaime goes to the Philippines and has to deal with the economic changes which the company is going through under the Marcos dictatorship.


By the mid 1960s, Jaime's favorite spot is the Bocaccio nightclub, where he meets the sexy and enigmatic Bel, a divorced woman with two kids. They quickly enter a relationship. Bel is entangled in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband. Jaime buys an apartment and asks Bel to marry him. She turns him down, as they are both free spirits. Jaime gets drunk. That same night, Bel dies in an accident. When he hears the news, Jaime tries to take his own life in despair. His friends and family help him get back on his feet. However, he vows never to write poetry again.
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On his return, Jaime meets Toni, a young photography assistant of humble background, and they begin a sentimental relationship. In spite of his class awareness he seems to be attracted to men of humbler background. Toni, for his part, insists on learning all he can from Jaime and asks him to introduce him into his sophisticated world, unknown to him. One day, at the beach with Tony and some friends, he gets moved watching the freshness of a girl dancing with Tony. As a middle-aged poet, Jaime becomes painfully aware of the passage of time, his misspent youth, and the death that patiently awaits him. He writes in a poem :"What do you want now, youth, you impudent delight of life?," "What brings you to the beach? We old ones were content until you came along to wound us by reviving the most fearful of impossible dreams. You come to rummage through our imaginations."


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At the beginning of the 1970s, Jaime goes to the Philippines to deal with the company's economic changes under [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s dictatorship. On his return, Jaime meets Toni, a young photography assistant of humble background, and they begin a relationship. In spite of his class awareness, Jaime is attracted to men of lower background. Toni insists on learning all he can from Jaime and asks him to introduce him into his sophisticated world. At the beach with Tony and some friends, Jaime is moved to tears watching the freshness of a girl dancing with Tony. Now a middle-aged poet, Jaime is painfully aware of the passage of time, his misspent youth, and the death that awaits him. He writes in a poem: "What do you want now, youth, you impudent delight of life?" "What brings you to the beach? We old ones were content until you came along to wound us by reviving the most fearful of impossible dreams. You come to rummage through our imaginations."
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Jaime’s father dies and events pile up on each other the growing tension between Jaime and Toni leads to a violent confrontation in the country house which Jaime has bought as their love nest. Toni throws him out, and Jaime trips and is injured in the snow. He almost dies. "The fact that life was to be taken seriously we understand only later," he narrates in another poem. "Like all young people, I was going to change the world. I wanted to make my mark and withdraw to applause. Growing old, dying, it was all a question of the size of the theater. But time has passed and I see the unpleasant truth. Growing old, dying, is the play's only plot."


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Jaime's father dies. Growing tension between Jaime and Toni leads to a violent confrontation in the country house that Jaime bought as their love nest. Toni throws him out. Jaime falls and is injured in the snow. He nearly dies. "The fact that life was to be taken seriously we understand only later," he writes in another poem, "Like all young people, I was going to change the world. I wanted to make my mark and withdraw to applause. Growing old, dying, it was all a question of the size of the theater. But time has passed and I see the unpleasant truth. Growing old, dying, is the play's only plot."
In another poem, he writes: "Life is sometimes so short and complete that a minute, when I let it and you let it, runs faster and lasts a long time. Life is sometimes richer and during the week invites us both to go together into its palace or on Sundays to jerk and jolt. It's then that life can be counted in units of your love so small that they are forgotten amid the happiness, amid the confusion. Life sometimes is so little and so intense, if that's your pleasure. Even the pain you cause me brings another meaning to being of this world. Life, then, is us to the most evil extreme. For loving each other is a punishment and living together an abyss."After the death of Franco, democracy is restored in Spain and Jaime and his friends celebrated. Now an old man, Jaime lives out his days with a young stage actor. He finds out that he has [[AIDS]]. The passing of time and illness have left their mark on him. His friends, who know that Jaime is dying, organize a poetry recital at Madrid’s famous Students Residence, which turns into a public acclamation of the poet. Now old and approaching death, he still yearns for youth and beauty. He hires a young male prostitute, but in a hotel room he can only passive observe the young naked man dancing to The Pet shop Boy's You were on my mind.

Years later, old and tired, Jaime is living with a young stage actor. He learns that he has [[AIDS]]. His friends, knowing that Jaime is dying, organize a poetry recital at Madrid's famous Students Residence, which turns into a public celebration of the poet. Although old and dying, he still yearns for youth and beauty. He hires a young male prostitute. In the hotel room, he can only passively watch the young naked man dance to [[The Pet Shop Boys]]' song ''Always on My Mind''.


==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Jordi Mollà]] - [[Jaime Gil de Biedma]]<ref name=mcyd>{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/gl/dam/jcr:de860dcb-0ca9-4568-9967-247712a74b0d/Largos2009-CaE_opt72.pdf|page=45|publisher=[[Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte]]|year=2009|title=Largometrajes|access-date=29 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[Jordi Mollà]] - [[Jaime Gil de Biedma]]
*Bimba Bosé - Bel
*[[Bimba Bosé]] - Bel<ref name=mcyd />
*[[Priscilla Delgado]] - Bel´s daughter<ref name=mcyd />
*[[Àlex Brendemühl]] - [[Juan Marsé]]
*[[Àlex Brendemühl]] - [[Juan Marsé]]<ref name=mcyd />
*Josep Linuesa - [[Carlos Barral]]
*{{ill|Josep Linuesa|es}} - [[Carlos Barral]]<ref name=mcyd />
*Isaac de los Reyes - Toni
*Isaac de los Reyes - Toni<ref name=mcyd />
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*Juli Mira - Jaime's father
*[[Marco Morales]] - Johnny<ref name=mcyd />
*Alfonso Bergara - Luis
*{{ill|Alfonso Begara|es}} - Luis<ref name=mcyd />
*Marc Martínez - Víctor Anglada
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*[[Juli Mira]] - Don Luis, Jaime's father<ref name=mcyd />
*Isabelle Stoffel - Colita
*{{ill|Isabelle Stoffel|es}} - Colita<ref name=mcyd />
*Vicky Peña - Jaime's mother
*[[Vicky Peña]] - Doña Luisa, Jaime's mother<ref name=mcyd />
*Susana Fialho - Joaquina<ref name=mcyd />
*{{ill|Marc Martínez (actor)|es|Marc Martínez|lt=Marc Martínez}} - Víctor Anglada<ref name=mcyd />
*{{ill|Biel Durán|es}} - Enrique Vila Matas<ref name=mcyd />
*Javier Coromina - Oriol Regás<ref name=mcyd />
*Jemi Paretas - Xavi Miserachs<ref name=mcyd />
* [[Manolo Solo]] - Meler<ref name=mcyd />
* [[Carmen Conesa]] - Marquesa<ref name=mcyd />
* Luis Hostalot - Inspector Creix<ref name=mcyd />
* {{ill|Rosa Boladeras|ca}} - Ivonne, Carlos Barral's wife<ref name=mcyd />
* {{ill|Cristóbal Suárez|es}} - Benjamín<ref name=mcyd />
* [[Blanca Suárez]] - Sandra<ref name=mcyd />
* Miguel Mota - Luis Gil de Biedma<ref name=mcyd />
* Olga Esteban - Ani<ref name=mcyd />
* Raquel Gribler - Mercedes<ref name=mcyd />
* [[Isak Férriz]] - Pep Madern<ref name=mcyd />
* Luisa Martínez - Felisa<ref name=mcyd />
* Othello Rensoli - Jimmy Baldwin<ref name=mcyd />
* Aurora Cayer - Gitana<ref name=mcyd />
* Sandra Mur - Carmina Labra<ref name=mcyd />
* Antonio Navarro - [[Manuel Sacristán]]<ref name=mcyd />
* Rafael Rojas - Federico<ref name=mcyd />
* Manuel Sánchez - Alberto<ref name=mcyd />
* Emily Behr - Eve Marx<ref name=mcyd />
* Carlos Olaya - Juez<ref name=mcyd />
* Patxi Barco - Abogado<ref name=mcyd />
* Francisco Olmo - Doctor Reventós<ref name=mcyd />
* Christophe Miraval - Doctor Francés<ref name=mcyd />
* Paco Catalá - Garrido<ref name=mcyd />


==Reception==
==Reception==
''The Consul of Sodom'' was shot on location in [[Madrid]], [[Barcelona]] and [[Manila]]. Shooting took place between 19 January 2009 and April 3 2009. The film premiered on 11 December 2009.
''The Consul of Sodom'' was shot on location in [[Madrid]], [[Barcelona]] and [[Manila]]. Shooting took place between 19 January 2009 and 3 April 2009. The film premiered on 11 December 2009.
The film generally received good reviews. It was nominated to six Goya Awards including best actor for Jordi Mollà, but did not win any.
The film generally received good reviews. It was nominated to six Goya Awards including best actor for Jordi Mollà, but did not win any.


The film caused a stir in Spain, with the real-life [[Juan Marse]], now a revered novelist, expressing his strong indignation in the national press. He referred to The Consul of Sodom as "grotesque, ridiculous, phony, absurd, dirty, pedantic, directed by an incompetent and ignorant fool, badly acted, with deplorable dialogue. It's a shameless film, with an infamous title and produced by unscrupulous people."<ref>{{cite web|title=Nominados a los Goya: ‘El cónsul de Sodoma’|url=http://jenesaispop.com/2010/02/07/nominados-a-los-goya-el-consul-de-sodoma/|work=Jenesaispop|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref>
The film caused a stir in Spain, with the real-life [[Juan Marse]], now a revered novelist, expressing his strong indignation in the national press. He referred to The Consul of Sodom as "grotesque, ridiculous, phony, absurd, dirty, pedantic, directed by an incompetent and ignorant fool, badly acted, with deplorable dialogue. It's a shameless film, with an infamous title and produced by unscrupulous people."<ref name="Jenesaispop"/>

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==External links==
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* {{imdb title|1446483|The Consul of Sodoma}}


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


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==External links==
[[es:El cónsul de Sodoma]]
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* {{IMDb title|1188986|The Consul of Sodom}}
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The Consul of Sodom
Theatrical release poster
SpanishEl cónsul de Sodoma
Directed bySigfrid Monleón
Written byMiguel Dalmau
Screenplay byJoaquín Górriz
Miguel A Fernández
Sigfrid Monleón
Based onthe biography by Miguel Dalmau
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
StarringJordi Mollà
Bimba Bosé
Àlex Brendemühl
Josep Linuesa
Isaac de los Reyes
CinematographyJose David Garcia Montero
Edited byPablo Blanco
Music byJoan Valvent
Distributed byRodeo Media
Release date
  • 11 December 2009 (2009-12-11)
Running time
112 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Box office335.848,24 € [1]

The Consul of Sodom (Spanish: El cónsul de Sodoma) is a 2009 Spanish film directed by Sigfrid Monleón and starring Jordi Mollà. It is a biopic of the Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, based on a biography written by Miguel Dalmau.[2]

Plot

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In 1959, Jaime Gil de Biedma, a wealthy poet from Barcelona, visits Manila on business trip as the director of the Philippine Tobacco Company. At night, he gives free rein to his homosexuality. He meets Johnny, a young man who works in an erotic nightclub, and they have sex. The poverty of Manila leaves a deep impression on Jaime and heightens his social conscience.

Back in Barcelona, the Spanish police interrogate Jaime about his subversive friends who still dream of regime change in Spain. Jaime is refused membership in the Communist Party because he is gay. He visits his friend, editor Carlos Barral, and meets Juan Marsé, a young writer about to publish his first novel.

Jaime treats his lover Luis, who is of humble background, with contempt. After a heated argument, Luis leaves him for good. Describing himself as "a Sunday poet with a Monday conscience", Jaime works for his family's company on weekdays and lives a bohemian lifestyle on weekends. Don Luis, his father, takes care of Jaime's troubles with the police, but warns Jaime he has to sort his life out because he is putting the family and business in jeopardy.

By the mid 1960s, Jaime's favorite spot is the Bocaccio nightclub, where he meets the sexy and enigmatic Bel, a divorced woman with two kids. They quickly enter a relationship. Bel is entangled in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband. Jaime buys an apartment and asks Bel to marry him. She turns him down, as they are both free spirits. Jaime gets drunk. That same night, Bel dies in an accident. When he hears the news, Jaime tries to take his own life in despair. His friends and family help him get back on his feet. However, he vows never to write poetry again.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Jaime goes to the Philippines to deal with the company's economic changes under Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship. On his return, Jaime meets Toni, a young photography assistant of humble background, and they begin a relationship. In spite of his class awareness, Jaime is attracted to men of lower background. Toni insists on learning all he can from Jaime and asks him to introduce him into his sophisticated world. At the beach with Tony and some friends, Jaime is moved to tears watching the freshness of a girl dancing with Tony. Now a middle-aged poet, Jaime is painfully aware of the passage of time, his misspent youth, and the death that awaits him. He writes in a poem: "What do you want now, youth, you impudent delight of life?" "What brings you to the beach? We old ones were content until you came along to wound us by reviving the most fearful of impossible dreams. You come to rummage through our imaginations."

Jaime's father dies. Growing tension between Jaime and Toni leads to a violent confrontation in the country house that Jaime bought as their love nest. Toni throws him out. Jaime falls and is injured in the snow. He nearly dies. "The fact that life was to be taken seriously we understand only later," he writes in another poem, "Like all young people, I was going to change the world. I wanted to make my mark and withdraw to applause. Growing old, dying, it was all a question of the size of the theater. But time has passed and I see the unpleasant truth. Growing old, dying, is the play's only plot."

Years later, old and tired, Jaime is living with a young stage actor. He learns that he has AIDS. His friends, knowing that Jaime is dying, organize a poetry recital at Madrid's famous Students Residence, which turns into a public celebration of the poet. Although old and dying, he still yearns for youth and beauty. He hires a young male prostitute. In the hotel room, he can only passively watch the young naked man dance to The Pet Shop Boys' song Always on My Mind.

Cast

[edit]

Reception

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The Consul of Sodom was shot on location in Madrid, Barcelona and Manila. Shooting took place between 19 January 2009 and 3 April 2009. The film premiered on 11 December 2009. The film generally received good reviews. It was nominated to six Goya Awards including best actor for Jordi Mollà, but did not win any.

The film caused a stir in Spain, with the real-life Juan Marse, now a revered novelist, expressing his strong indignation in the national press. He referred to The Consul of Sodom as "grotesque, ridiculous, phony, absurd, dirty, pedantic, directed by an incompetent and ignorant fool, badly acted, with deplorable dialogue. It's a shameless film, with an infamous title and produced by unscrupulous people."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "'El cónsul de Sodoma'". Retrieved 15 March 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b "Nominados a los Goya: 'El cónsul de Sodoma'". Jenesaispop. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am "Largometrajes" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. 2009. p. 45. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
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