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“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” a sexual and scatological dazzler about an inmate‘s obsession with a favorite musical, sounds like the kind of thing some folks won’t watch even if they, too, were locked in a prison for years. Their loss. In the spirit of the film, I’ll try to change their mind.

It’s 1983 Argentina, the last days of a militarized dictatorship under which 30,000 people have been disappeared. Scraggly, severe Valentin ( Diego Luna ) is a political prisoner with ties to the revolutionary underground. His new cellmate is a brazen chatterbox named Molina ( Tonatiuh ), a gay window dresser serving an eight-year sentence for indecency in a public bathroom. They have zero sh

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