Hidden Pleasures
Alternative title: Los placeres ocultos

Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia

A successful, closeted banker falls passionately in love with a handsome but impoverished 18-year-old student, leading to devastating consequences for the young man. This is a modern retelling of 'Death in Venice'.
Hidden Pleasures is one of Eloy de la Iglesia’s typically provocative examinations of sexuality and social hypocrisy. The relationship at its centre is complicated by class, age and repression, and the film can be melodramatic, but de la Iglesia’s sympathy for outsiders gives the story real feeling beneath its more sensational elements.

Hidden Pleasures

Alternative title: Los placeres ocultos

Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia

A successful, closeted banker falls passionately in love with a handsome but impoverished 18-year-old student, leading to devastating consequences for the young man. This is a modern retelling of 'Death in Venice'.

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Hidden Pleasures is one of Eloy de la Iglesia’s typically provocative examinations of sexuality and social hypocrisy. The relationship at its centre is complicated by class, age and repression, and the film can be melodramatic, but de la Iglesia’s sympathy for outsiders gives the story real feeling beneath its more sensational elements.