Baton Rouge is a 1988 Spanish neo-noir thriller film directed by Rafael Moleón Gavilanes, which stars Carmen Maura, Victoria Abril, and Antonio Banderas.
Plot A wealthy woman Isabel Harris is blackmailed by cold psychiatrist Ana Alonso and the gold-digging gigolo Antonio, who team up to frame Isabel in a crime.
Cast
Release It was released in Spanish theatres on 10 October 1988.
Reception Octavi Martí's review in El País reproached Moleón for privileging the mathematical nature of the plot, "devouring everything, characters included, to the point of [Moleón] filming absurd sequences". He did, however, praise convincing performances from the actors.
Accolades
| rowspan = "5" align = "center" | 1989 || rowspan = "5" | 3rd Goya Awards || Best Original Screenplay || Agustín Díaz Yanes, Rafael Monleón || || rowspan = "5" | |- | Best Actress || Victoria Abril || |- | Best Supporting Actress || Laura Cepeda || |- | Best Supporting Actor || Ángel de Andrés López || |- | Best Editing || José Salcedo ||
See also List of Spanish films of 1988
References