Movies
September, 1985
Two Men in a Latin-American prison cell have little in common except the cramped space they share. Molina, a homosexual, is supposed to be informing on his cellmate, Valentin, a dour Marxist revolutionary whose face and body are scarred by frequent torture. Eventually, they become friends, then lovers. Yet Kiss of the Spider Woman (Island Alive) is anything but a gay-rights romance. Its protagonists are simply people whose enforced togetherness teaches them love and trust. The odd-couple chemist...
