The Ages of Lulu (Spanish: Las edades de Lulú) is a 1990 Spanish erotic drama film written and directed by Bigas Luna and starring Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, María Barranco and Javier Bardem in his film debut.
The fifteen-year-old Lulú is seduced by Pablo, her brother Marcelo's best friend, who then leaves to work in the United States.
Unable to pay enough to satisfy her desires, she meets a pimp called Remy who runs a secret S&M club.
Remy tells Lulú to go to a club, where she is tied up by Jimmy, a gay man she had previously paid for sex.
Ángela Molina, who was originally cast in the lead role, withdrew when she learned how explicit the sex scenes were to be.
In an interview, Bigas Luna recalled the episode when Francesca Neri, due to script requirements, was forced to shave her pubic hair and burst into tears before shooting one of the film's most scabrous scenes.
He had to go and cheer her up and Neri, says Bigas Luna, "opened her bathrobe and shot her sex in my eyes and said to me, crying: 'Bigas, I'm sick, I look ugly, hideous'".