Something Bitter in the Mouth

[1] César becomes the object of sexual desire of three women (Clementina, Aurelia and Ana) for different reasons.

[8] They prevented the film from the denouement featured in the original script, with the three women killing César, as the executioner ended up being the mentally-retarded servant Jacobo.

[6] The final script was penned by Eloy de la Iglesia with the collaboration of Ana Diosdado (uncredited).

[8] It opened in the Spanish capital in 1972, after the success of De la Iglesia's The Glass Ceiling.

[8] Fernando Morales of El País described the film as "a personal and murky melodrama, full of morbidity, which had good manners", yet also "greatly diminished by the [censorship] issues".