(Original Title: El amor sí tiene cura) A Fernando Esteso comedy about a group of churchgoers struggling with sexual issues. Esteso plays two roles in this film - a sexually repressed banker and a sexually repressed priest.
Ana (Marcela Walerstein) sings in clubs in the city, but she would never dare to tell her parents.
She's trying to get a record contract. Check out the Sex Pistols poster.
Ana in church with Teresa (Cayetana Guillén Cuervo); neither take it too seriously.
Casilda (Esperanza Roy), her mother, most definitely does.
After mass, Ana and Teresa tell their parents a lie about where they're going.
If only Abilio and Calida knew...
Teresa is having sex.
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo is the daughter of Fernando Guillén, a famous actor. Caventana went on to a successful TV career.
Ana (Marcela Walerstein) is having sex with another teenage boy. Walerstein would go on to star in a bunch of Emmanuelle movies, and not too much else.
Abilio desperately wants sex, but Calida is just too dour and cold.
Her uncle Don Cristóbal introduces Ana to a new priest, Martín (Miguel Molina)
A very odd side story. Ana flirts with this guy, who turns out to be gay.
She grabs his dick in public to try and get a rise out of him.
He's also a cross dresser.
The situation gets hot, and Ana's top gets ripped off.
Back in church with her pious mother.
Don Cristóbal meets a mother (Neus Asensi) at the church.
He's invited to her home.
He spills tea on her. Then he rushes out, feeling a bit sweaty and out-of-sorts.
Don Cristóbal struggles with temptation and confesses to Don Cosme (Manuel Alexandre)
Unable to stay away, he returns to Neus Asensi
Damn.
In the end, he's able to resist, and gets the hell outta there.
Martin and Ana get to know each other. His views are very different than her uncle's.
Martin returns to his rectory to find Teresa waiting for him.
He resists Teresa, but not so much with Ana.
She ends up liking it a lot more than expected.
Later, we find her with the Kama Sutra instead of the bible.
It ends with Ana back on stage performing one of her awful songs. THE END
I know Spain had to work through some shit after the Franco regime, but this religion versus sex shtick just doesn't do it for me. I appreciated the nude scenes from Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Neus Asensi, but was disappointed that the future "Young Emmanuelle" Marcela Walerstein would barely provide any eye candy.

Double Feature: Another film where Esperanza Roy plays a sex-hating religious zealot is the horror flick, A Candle for the Devil (1973).
★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
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