LA CASA DE LAS PALOMAS (1972): A Spanish Teen's Sexual Affair with Mother's Lover

Here's a summary of what Lazarillo wrote on IMDB about La casa de las palomas (1972) [English: The House of the Doves]:

This is really a coming-of-age story about [Sandra] a young girl (Ornela Muti) who has a sexual affair with the spurned gigolo lover of her beautiful mother (Lucia Bose) [...]. [The] title "House of the Doves" [...]comes from a strange dove-invested hotel/brothel where the girl and her lover rendezvous.

Lucia Bose and Ornella Muti are both very appealing, especially given their respective overripe and underripe ages (Muti was kind of Italian Brooke Shields at this time but with talent [...]) This is not really an exploitative mother-daughter fantasy, however--it's arty [...]. 

This movie is simply non-exploitative in any way, which isn't a bad thing, especially when it's a movie about the sexual coming-of-age of a fifteen-year-old girl (and one who was played by an actress of about the same age).

I'll leave it at that, but I'll add that the opening scene implies that any of the Spanish schoolgirls would have been pleased to have taken Sandra's place and have had an affair with the (older) gigolo. 

Las que empiezan a los quince años (1978): The Beginning [of TeenProstitution] at Age 15 [in Spain]

As there doesn't appear to be any subtitles and despite the fact that I live in New York, I was able to understand very little of Spain's Las que empiezan a los quince años (1978) [English: The Beginning at Age 15]; therefore, let's rely on Andrabem's IMDB post:

"Las que empiezan a los quince años" tells the story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen-year-old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.

Elisa lives with her father and her stepmother. Her father, drown in debts by reason of bad business decisions, has to run away from his debtors. Elisa remains with her stepmother that has no love left for her. Soon Elisa is out in the streets. One of the roads left for her is [teen] prostitution. Her life will be one of many adventures and misadventures.

Marian, very early in her life, became a prostitute. She had known a good-looking [much older] guy in a party. She falls in love with him, but in reality he's a pimp. One day they have a fight and Marian decides to become independent. She opens the doors of the cars and ask the drivers if they want some company. On seeing this beautiful Lolita, many say that, yes, they could do with a bit of company.

Susi's family has no financial problems. Her father works a lot and is always absent, but her mother likes and understands her. Susi likes girls. She sometimes plays innocent little [nymphet lesbian] games with Elisa and Marian.

The film offers a rosy vision of [teen] prostitution, but anyway it had no intention at all of being a documentary. The film wants to titillate, and it delivers. The [teen] girls frequently take off their clothes, make love, laugh...

I'll add that Elisa (Sonia Blanca), unlike Marian, isn't drawn to prostitution. Consequently, Elisa, to the chagrin of her stepmother, (eventually) rebuffs the advances of a middle-aged john. However, Elisa is attracted to older men. For example, she goes home with a seemingly wealthy man whom treats her like an adult by giving her a drink and a smoke, but instead of charming the nymphet, he drugs and rapes Elisa. In addition, Elisa is raped by a businessman after he witnesses her seductively cleaning at the office. However, in the end, Elisa does have, at least, one consensual age-gap love affair. 

MADRID,1987 (2011): A Teacher's [Gorilla] Seduction of Student

I used to peruse the now defunct Village Voice every Wednesday to see if there were any films that were showing in Manhattan that are relevant to this blog. A review of Madrid, 1897 (2011) was written in America's former largest weekly.

Here's the IMDb plot summary: Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman. Four walls within which they conjure intellectualism, relive the profession (journalism), explore politics and discover each other.

In the Spanish film, Miguel (José Sacristán), a married journalist, takes Angela (María Valverde), a young journalism student, back to his artist friend's apartment for a game of seduction.

Miguel used the Gorilla approach, which is an aggressive style of seduction where the seducer unabashedly commands his subject to submit  to his commands. For example, instead of asking Angela to take off her clothes, Miguel told her, "I'd like you to take off your clothes [...]"

And Miguel wasn't needy (i.e., He didn't allow Angela to use him for his knowledge and not expect something in return.) For instance, he asked, "We are gonna fuck, aren't we?" 

Miguel's behavior was unlike many men who would be happy to just be in the company of a nymphet and wouldn't have the wherewithal to even attempt to seduce her. However, Angela asked Miguel, "Are you ashamed of being seen with a young girl? People would think I'm your granddaughter."

However, Miguel committed a seduction faux paus when he used the pronoun "I" too much in his desire to share his views on literature, writing, art and politics. Some would opine that Miguel should have been more charming and used the Bounce Back Technique that Cabane related in The Charisma Myth, which would have allowed Angela to share her views.

Bounce Back Technique:

1. Answer any question with a fact
2. Add a personal note
3. Redirect the question

For example:
Angela:
[Question] "Do you like museums?"

Miguel:
[Fact] "I hate museums."
[Personal Note] "They don't let you touch the art."
[Redirection] "How do you feel about museums?

The international premiere of Madrid, 1897 (2011) was at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.