Fuego
(presented by John Waters)

Director: Armando Bo

Cast: Isabel Sarli, Armando Bo, Alba Mujica

Country: Argentina
Year: 1969
Running Time: 81 min
Format: 35mm, dubbed in English

"She's a woman on fire!," screams the tagline for the film, and it's not kidding. Isabel Sarli, Miss Argentina 1955 and real life lover of director/co-star Armando Bo, singes the screen as Laura, is possessed. The personification of buxom, Laura can not quench her desire for sex. This becomes a problem when she meets Carlos, falls and love and marries him.

Despite constant lovemaking between the newlyweds, Laura is not satisfied, and she turns to other men as well as her lesbian housekeeper. The couple seeks medical attention from the best medical minds from Buenos Aries to the United States to cure Laura's nymphomania.

Bo made 27 films with Sarli, making Sarli a sex symbol in Argentina and internationally. Fuego is perhaps their most famous collaboration on screen. Full of overwrought melodrama this kitsch classic enjoyed success in the 1970s as a drive-in favorite.

--Dan Krovich

John Waters is back at The Maryland Film Festival for the fourth consecutive year, bringing one of his favorite films to the festival. He has been making films in Baltimore since the mid sixties, becoming Baltimore nobility. Though best known for directing films from Multiple Maniacs and Pink Flamingos to Serial Mom and Cecil B. Demented, Waters is also a noted author, artist, and public speaker. He has also served as the host of the Independent Spirit Awards for the past two years. It is truly an experience to see a film with the man that William Burroughs once dubbed "The Pope of Trash."