The Exquisite Cadaver

The Exquisite Cadaver Spanish Las Crueles AKA The Cruel Ones is a 1969 Spanish art house exploitation film directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the short story Bailando Para Parker written by Gonzalo Surez. The plot follows a welltodo publisher and family man who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead womans former lesbian lover, who seeks vengeance.

Without a word, Carlos enters the mysterious womans car. She drives him to her remote home, where she feeds him lysergic acid embedded in red blotting paper. Suddenly he is ambling down a long corridor drawn towards a womans voice lamenting her lost love. He reaches the end of the hallway to discover the voice emanating from a tape recorder. He finds a womans body in a refrigerator curled up, pale, but immaculate. When he awakens from the drugged stupor the editor is back at home, his body covered in a jaundiced yellow. His wife explains to him that she received a call from Parker, the mysterious woman, and she went to her house to fetch him. The wife believes neither the explanation given by her husband nor the one she receives from Parker about what has happened.Trying to come clean with his wife, the editor tells her how two years ago he met the young woman of the refrigerator. Her name was Esther. In a flashback Esther is seen in a coffee shop fiddling with some pills. She appears bored, yet eager to flirt with the older publisher. Shortly afterwards they became lovers. Then Carlos and Esther, now a couple, are seen out near the sea. As she edges toward the cliff, she says, Id die so that my love for you will last. So that indifference will not kill it. ........

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