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When “Kiss of nan Spider Woman” opens successful theaters this October, theatre fans will get a chance to spot different activity by 1 of Broadway’s astir iconic composing duos connected nan large screen.
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s classical adjustment of Manuel Puig’s 1976 caller astir a captive who spends his clip fantasizing astir a fictional movie prima and his cellmate who can’t guidelines nan hallucinations, was a monolithic Broadway deed erstwhile it debuted successful 1992 and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical. Bill Condon’s caller film adaptation, which stars Jennifer Lopez, was 1 of nan buzziest titles to debut astatine Sundance this twelvemonth and could go a subordinate successful nan upcoming Oscar race.
An charismatic synopsis for ‘Kiss of nan Spider Woman’ reads: Valentín (Diego Luna), a governmental prisoner, shares a compartment pinch Molina (Tonatiuh), a model dresser convicted of nationalist indecency. The 2 shape an improbable enslaved arsenic Molina recounts nan crippled of a Hollywood philharmonic starring his favourite metallic surface diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez).
“Kiss of nan Spider Woman” premiered astatine nan 2025 Sundance Film Festival, wherever galore critics praised Lopez’s larger-than-life beingness successful nan film.
“Writer/director Bill Condon’s ‘Kiss of nan Spider Woman,’ a caller surface type of nan John Kander and Fred Ebb Broadway philharmonic itself inspired by Manuel Puig’s caller and Héctor Babenco’s 1985 Oscar winner, could do nary amended casting than Lopez arsenic Ingrid Luna, a fictional surface siren and Latin American type of a Golden Age of Hollywood actress,” IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio wrote successful his Sundance review. “Ingrid exists only arsenic a figment successful nan imagination of Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), a cheery captive successful politically fraught 1983 Argentina, who recounts to his cellmate Valentin (Diego Luna) nan crippled of a movie starring her arsenic Aurora. Lopez gets nan mother of each airbrushing jobs successful the film‘s philharmonic sequences, which are shot, possibly unusually successful 2025, for illustration an old-school Hollywood philharmonic — and not like, say, 2002’s flashy ‘Chicago,’ nan John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse philharmonic adjustment written by Condon and directed by Rob Marshall. That movie relied connected zooms, close-ups, and harsh cuts connected bodies, whereas nan metafictional ‘Kiss of nan Spider Woman’s’ philharmonic scenes are changeable stagelike, pinch actors for illustration Lopez, Tonatiuh, and Luna successful nan framework apical to toe.”
Roadside Attractions will merchandise “Kiss of nan Spider-Woman” successful theaters connected Friday, October 10. Watch nan teaser below.
