"Sooner or later, you're certain to meet, in the bedroom, the parlor or even the street... There's no place on earth, you're likely to miss her kiss." The moment this film ended I knew this performance was one of the best of the festival. But now that I'm finally writing this review after having seen a grand total
of 54 films at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival line-up, I feel confident in saying -
Tonatiuh gives the best performance in any film at the festival. This 2025 update on
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a modern re-imaginging of this iconic story from South America, which was turned into a big Broadway musical in the early 1990s. It is the second film adaption of the 1976 novel
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, following the 1985 Brazilian film adaptation. Director Bill Condon, who's no stranger to big musicals having made
Dreamgirls before, gives this story new life on the big screen and best of all gives us three ravishing performances to celebrate. I admit it's a strange film to premiere at a festival like Sundance which usually only shows indies and first-time features, but I'm very happy I had the chance to experience the premiere at this fest anyway. //
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