considered to be superficial and unsatisfying. Tirant lo Blanc did not enjoy the success of the director's two previous films. Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club (2007) Aranda has created a niche in adapting novels by Juan Marsé for film. With La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro (1980); Si te dicen que caí (1989), El Amante Bilingüe (1993), and Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club (2007) (Lolita's Club), the director has a track record of four adaptations from Marsé's contemporary novels. Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club (2007) is an erotic thriller, in which sex and brutality are mixed in a story of very different twin brothers. One is a coldhearted, violent police officer; the other is a helpless romantic suffering from a mental handicap. The two brothers become involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello for which the film is named. Released in November 2007, the film was widely considered a disappointment and quickly disappeared from the Spanish screens. Luna Caliente (2009) Aranda's last film, Luna Caliente (2009) (Hot Moon), tells the story of a poet who briefly returns to his home town, gets entangled in a web of sex and violence. He rapes the young daughter of his host. The script is based on a novel by Argentine Mempo Giardinelli, which places the action during the last military coup in Argentina. Aranda set the story in Spain of the 1970s during the process of Burgos, under which some of the last death sentences in Spain during Franco's regime were executed. Luna Caliente premiered in October 2009 at the Valladolid International Film Festival, but it failed to find an audience. Filmography Notes References Alvarez, Rosa & Frias, Belen. Vicente Aranda: El Cine Como Pasión. Huelva, XX Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, 1994, Benavent, Francisco María. Cine Español de los Noventa. Ediciones Mensajero, 2000, Cánovás, Joaquín (ed.), Varios Autores: Miradas sobre el cine de Vicente Aranda. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2000, Colmena, Enrique. Vicente Aranda. Cátedra, Madrid, 1986, D'Lugo, Marvin. Guide to the Cinema of Spain. Greenwood Press, 1997. Guarner, José Luis. El Inquietante Cine de Vicente Aranda. Imagfic, D.L.1985 Majarín, Sara. Una vida de cine: Pasión, Utopía, Historia: Lecciones de Vicente Aranda. Editorial Zumaque S.L., 2013. Jordan, Barry & Morgan-Tomosunas, Rikki. Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Manchester University Press, 1998, Mira, Alberto. Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema. The Scarecrow Press, 2010, Perriam, Chris. Stars and Masculinity in