La Celestina

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Calisto is a young knight who has fallen madly in love with a beautiful maiden, Melibea. Failing in his endeavors to win her over, Calisto is prompted by his unscrupulous servant, Sempronio to seek the help of Celestina. Calisto’s other servant Parmeno, tries to dissuade his master from resorting to the old witch who Parmeno knows all about from past experience. But Calisto see Celestina as his last hope for love and happiness and so pays her to work her magic on Melibea, which she duly does. The young Knight and the beautiful maiden are soon happy lovers, but not for long.

In the end, Celestina’s black magic can not equal in strength the magic of the heart, that Pandora’s Box of emotions and desires which, once opened by Celestina, unleashes a storm of passions onto the screen: love, greed, lust, revenge, and desire. A Molotov cocktail of the most explosive spirit … the human spirit. (Spanish with English subtitles)