Diario de una Ninfómana ("Diary of a Nymphomaniac

Hypersexuality

Hypersexuality is extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or sexual activity. Hypersexuality is typically associated with lowered sexual inhibitions. Although hypersexuality can be caused by some medical conditions or medications, in most cases the cause is unknown...

") is a Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 erotic drama

Sex in film

Sex in film refers to the presentation in motion pictures of sexuality and sex acts, including love scenes. Sex scenes have been depicted in film since the silent era of cinematography. Many actors and actresses have exposed parts of their bodies or dressed and behaved in ways considered sexually...

 directed by Christian Molina and starring Belen Fabra

Belén Fabra

-Career:Belén Fabra started by playing small roles in numerous theater plays, films and television series.She made her breakthrough with the 2007 play Plataforma, for which she was nominated for the Max Award and the Valle-Inclán de Teatro Award....

 and released in 2008.

Title

In the United States and Britain, the film was released under the title Insatiable - Diary of a Sex Addict.

It is unrelated to the French erotic drama Le journal intime d'une nymphomane ("The intimate diary of a nymphomaniac") and the porn movie Insatiable.

Screenplay

The film's script was based on Insatiable - The Sexual Adventures of a French Girl in Spain, the best-selling memoir of French author Valérie Tasso

Valerie Tasso

Valerie Tasso , is a French writer, lecturer, research worker and sex therapist, currently living in Barcelona, Spain. She has several university degrees and in 2006 she graduated in Sex Therapy from The Institute of Sexology in Madrid.In 1999, she worked as a prostitute for six months, out...

.

Plot

Val, a young, middle-class woman with a strong desire for sex, finds herself destitute after an abusive boyfriend runs off with all her money, and begins to earn a living as a high-class call girl

Call girl

A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who is not visible to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency...

 but finds herself enjoying this life more than she could have hoped - or feared.

Main cast

• Belén Fabra
  Belén Fabra
  -Career:Belén Fabra started by playing small roles in numerous theater plays, films and television series.She made her breakthrough with the 2007 play Plataforma, for which she was nominated for the Max Award and the Valle-Inclán de Teatro Award....
  
   as Val
• Leonardo Sbaraglia
  Leonardo Sbaraglia
  Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia is a prominent Argentine film actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain.He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in Red Lights.-Life and work:...
  
   as Jaime
• Ángela Molina
  Ángela Molina
  Ángela Molina is a Spanish actress, and a daughter of Antonio Molina, Spanish singer and actor.Molina studied dance and theater art in the Escuela Superior de Madrid. She rose to international prominence after starring in Luis Buñuel's last movie That Obscure Object of Desire...
  
   (no relation) as Cristina
• Llum Barrera as Sonia
• Antonio Garrido
  Antonio Garrido (actor)
  Antonio Garrido is a Spanish actor and TV presenter.He started in a theatre company, taking part in several plays like Bajarse al moro, Breve Brecht, Un nuevo mundo, El barbero de Sevilla, Réquiem de Berlín or El otro lado de la cama.-Filmography:*Camarón by Jaime Chávarri, 2005*Desde que amanece...
  
  
• Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
  
   as Abuela

What critics said

• "Though competently acted, well scored, and lushly photographed ... Christian Molina’s ... erotic drama ... represents an ugly and pretentious blight on the face of its chosen subgenre." --Nathan Southern, TV Guide
  TV Guide
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• "[T]he film ... in its heavy-handed crudeness ... plays out like a typical, manipulative melodrama. ... Another element that plagues the film is its unrealistic depictions of misogynistic men. [It] is marked by an overtly formulaic script, which too neatly follows the three-act structure with a pattern of introduction, elation, conflict, descent and recovery. The film’s pacing problems are exacerbated by a profusion of abbreviated, deficient scenes which interrupt the flow of the narrative. [Belen] Fabra’s performance during [her] emotional scenes is nearly strong enough to make me forget about the manipulative mawkishness behind them." --Jonathan Henderson, Cinelogue

External links

• Valérie Tasso personal website