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Clara es el precio

Name: Clara es el precio
Director: Vicente Aranda
Released: 1975
Duration: 101 min

Representation Score

6.5/10

Good

1975

Director

Vicente Aranda

Runtime

101 minutes

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The film excels at deconstructing traditional gender roles and the myth of the stable nuclear family. By centering a woman's role in a failing marriage, it challenges mid-70s social expectations. However, the work is limited by its demographic homogeneity. The lack of racial diversity and queer representation keeps the narrative within a narrow, localized European framework. Ultimately, the film is a study of survival and systemic failure rather than a broad inclusive portrait.

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Category Breakdown

Does Clara es el precio have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film does not include explicit LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight relationships. It focuses on heterosexual marriage and transactional sexual dynamics rather than exploring queer perspectives.

How does Clara es el precio portray gender?

Good

Clara defies passive female stereotypes by leading her household's survival through high-stakes labor. The film challenges traditional masculinity by showing the husband as unable to provide or perform.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Clara es el precio?

Limited

The production is a localized Spanish drama set in Costa Brava. It features a predominantly white, Western European cast with no evidence of diverse racial representation.

How does Clara es el precio represent religion and culture?

Good

The story critiques the sanctity of marriage and the nuclear family as fragile institutions. It uses an American millionaire to criticize capitalist exploitation and blackmail.

Does Clara es el precio include disability representation?

Fair

Juan's impotence serves as a central plot driver. However, this functions more as a narrative device for conflict than a deep exploration of living with disability.

Present on Screen

Subverts traditional gender hierarchies by centering female leadership and resilience.
Challenges traditional masculinity through the portrayal of the husband's inability to provide or perform.
Provides a sharp critique of capitalist intrusion and the fragility of marriage.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight relationships.
Features a predominantly white, Western European cast with minimal racial or ethnic diversity.
Uses physical impairment primarily as a plot device rather than a character study.

Official Synopsis

In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge, finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.

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