Carne (1968 film)

and Isabel Sarli as Antonio and Delicia. • Isabel Sarli as Delicia • Víctor Bó as Antonio Aicardi • Romualdo Quiroga as Humberto "el macho" • Vicente Rubino as a homosexual • Juan Carlos Altavista as José García • Alba Solís as a singing worker • Oscar Valicelli as Jacinto • Pepita Muñoz as a worker ==Production==

In the film Isabel Sarli has explicit sex scenes with Víctor Bó, who was Armando Bo's son. Armando and Isabel were lovers at the time so Victor was her stepson. In interviews, Victor later talked about the difficulty of filming the erotic scenes with Isabel "Coca" Sarli: "With Coca it was a very particular relationship, because when we had love scenes we both laughed because we were so nervous." ==Release==

Carne premiered on October 24, 1968 in various theaters in Buenos Aires and the Ocean Rex cinema in Mar del Plata. Reportedly, on its premiere day more than two thousand spectators made long lines to watch the movie. In the important Buenos Aires theaters Hindú and Callao, which were used for statistics, the turnout was 2,633 people, being the most watched movie of those that premiered that day. ==Critical analysis==

Writers Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela characterized the film as having "black and white footage without any explanation, red as the dominant color and camp carried to its ultimate consequences." Throughout the film, the female body is objectified as "a piece of meat", featuring overlays of images of cuts of meat and Sarli's body. Writer Tamara Drajner Barredo felt that "this identification of the female body with the meat has as a correlate an identification of the sexual desire with an animalized and irrational carnal desire." In this matter, Bó stated: What was inside that truck was not a person. It was meat, nothing but meat. Because if those guys had seen the soul, the suffering of that woman, they would not have done it. I tried to make a parameter, between the meat that we consume every day and the meat as a sexual object. ==Legacy==

One of the most emblematic films by Bó and Sarli, Years after its release, especially since the democratic stability that began with the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín in 1983, their work—including films such as Carne, Fiebre, Una mariposa en la noche and Desnuda en la arena—began to be revalued as cult classics and pop icons. In 2015, Télam placed Carne at number 4 in its list of "20 classic films of erotic cinema", considering it "the total representation" of Bó's work. Regarding the film's cultural influence in Argentina, the news agency stated: "Something very striking happens with this film: it is present in our memory without necessarily having seen it, a total synthesis of the popularity of the dame of national erotic cinema. A couple of phrases have remained in history." it was actually never said in the film, constituting "a true popular myth." The scene in which Sarli is raped on a piece of beef as the perpetrator cries "Carne sobre carne" (English: "Meat on meat") constitutes the defining moment of the film and is widely remembered in Argentine cinephilia. "Carne sobre carne" has been considered "the most famous phrase that has come out of [Bó's] characters." American director John Waters claims to be a great admirer of Carne and has cited the films of Bó and Sarli as an inspiration. He told Mariano Kairuz of Página/12 in 2012: "Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli are like Joseph von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich," he says enthusiastically. Maybe a little less elegant... –Not for me! When we play their movies here, people laugh with them, not at them: you can tell Armando was absolutely fascinated with this goddess, and there was nothing ironic in them, in any case they were pieces from another era, great innocent sex films, politically incorrect for our current standards. I also love this other movie, I think it's called Carne, when Isabel walks to her work in a meat packing plant every day following the train tracks in high heels and with the complete look of a prostitute.. ==See also==