Reception
El Amante Bilingüe did not enjoy commercial or critical success. According to Vicente Aranda, “The film suffered the lack of enthusiasm from the producer of which I was aware and tried to resolve. The producer of the film, Andres Vicente Gómez, explained, “El Amante Bilingüe was liked neither by the public nor the novelist or even by the actors who made it, I did not like it either. I also think, Aranda was not very happy with the film, nevertheless we went on to make another movie together”.
Vicente Aranda explained: “ I think I did not exaggerate enough. I should have used a cruder brush. I am not defending above all my own mistakes. I would have been more satisfied with the film if I would have employed an uglier and more extreme style. It was a mistake to center the plot of the film in dialectic between two languages that were so close Catalan and Spanish. I stated often that the dialectic should have established between English and Spanish which would have made the film more universal. The plot could have remained the same, just changing the scenery from Barcelona to Los Angeles or New York and instead of a charnego some other type of foreigner, the rest working the same.
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