Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

90 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 13, 2011

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

90 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 13, 2011

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Crone Film Produktion A/S, Zip Films, Dagmar Film Produktion, Memorias Del Sabio Producciones
Original title Memoria de mis putas tristes
Directors Henning Carlsen
Writers Henning Carlsen, Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast

Emilio Echevarría

as El Sabio

Geraldine Chaplin

as Rosa Cabarcas / Brothel madam

Ángela Molina

as Casilda Armenta

Olivia Molina

as Casilda Armenta (young)

Dominika Paleta

as Ximena

Tara Parra

as Ximena (old)

Evangelina Sosa

as Damiana / maid (young)

Evangelina Martínez

as Damiana / maid (old)

Alejandra Barros

as Florina de Dios

Arturo Beristáin

as Marco Tulio / Newspaper manager

Paola Medina

as Delgadina

Alfredo Sevilla

as Alfredo / Ximena's father