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  • 2004
  • Unrated
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2004
  • Unrated
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Daniel (Cuervo) is a middle-aged, gay man who comes from an established family and lives a charmed, middle-class existence. He is a "regular" of Madrid's gay bar scene sometimes hunting for good-looking, young foreigners. At one of these bars, he meets Kyril (Beba), a hunky 23-year-old Bulgarian. After a night of animalistic passion, Dan...

Directed By: Eloy de la Iglesia

Written By: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Antonio Hens, Eduardo Mendicutti, Eloy de la Iglesia

  • 2004
  • Unrated
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2004
  • Unrated
  • TLA Releasing
  • 1 h 41 m

Bulgarian Lovers

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
55
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Summary Daniel (Cuervo) is a middle-aged, gay man who comes from an established family and lives a charmed, middle-class existence. He is a "regular" of Madrid's gay bar scene sometimes hunting for good-looking, young foreigners. At one of these bars, he meets Kyril (Beba), a hunky 23-year-old Bulgarian. After a night of animalistic passion, Dan...

Directed By: Eloy de la Iglesia

Written By: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Antonio Hens, Eduardo Mendicutti, Eloy de la Iglesia

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
55
27% Positive
3 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
9% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
55
27% Positive
3 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
9% Negative
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80
Sly, swift, succinct -- and very sexy.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
Full of charm, entertaining enough as it unfolds, good looking, but not especially memorable in retrospect.
By David Stratton FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
60
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.
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50
Sly, stylishly cynical dark farce.
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50
Ultimately suffers from an overabundance of plot and a paucity of depth, but it does provide some fleeting comic pleasures along the way.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Megan Lehmann FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Altube Filmeak S.L., Conexión Sur, Creativos Asociados de Radio y Televisión (CARTEL), Cuervo Films, Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Televisión Española (TVE), Vía Digital
Release Date Apr 30, 2004
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Beware of love in radioactive packages"
Website http://www.tlareleasing.com/bulgarianlovers/
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Awards

Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Málaga Spanish Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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