"Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso in what is their most solid and mature film so far. Their look over the S cinema moves between an aesthetic nostalgia and a contemporary sensibility which is more pro-feminine than feminism. Mar Flores has the least sympathetic role but succeeds at being convincing; Candela Peña is a piece of truth and life and a colossal Goya Toledo galvanizes the screen as she passes by."

EL PAIS
Jordi Costa

"Being a novelty, Los Años Desnudos is spot on with the tone and the distancing used in meaningful and funny scenes."

ABC
Federico Marín Bellón

"Ayaso y Sabroso open up. There is laughter, jokes, tragedy and raw emotions in a story that flicks through a collection of magazines from the seventies."

CINEMANIA
C.M.

"Avoding unnecessary nostalgia, (...) and establishing a balance between drama and comedy, Ayaso and Sabroso make their best film so far."

FOTOGRAMAS
Mirito Torreiro

"In the aftermath of Franco's death the Spanish cinema was portraying lots of breasts and bottoms in the so-called S films which was risqué eroticism but never pornography. It was seedy and sordid cinema which created ephemeral stars who are completely forgotten today.

The Ayaso and Sabroso couple depicts life in Spain at that time with truth and rigor. The film provides information, entertainment and moves the viewers' emotions. The documentation is thorough. Everything we see on the screen, including the characters, is based on real facts. Candela Peña, Goya Toledo and Mar Flores are wonderful each in her own role, as well as Antonio de la Torre."

TIMEOUT BARCELONA
Carlos Mir

"The liberalization of Spain in the aftermath of Franco's death provides the chaotic framework for Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso caustic seriocomedy Los Años Desnudos, a deconstruction of the cine del destape (literally, "uncovered films") wave of risqué, low budget comedies that sought to push the envelope of social mores and dismantle taboos reinforced during Franco's repressive government (usually involving religion or sexuality) within the thinly veiled guise of creating film art.

Los Años Desnudos illustrates the ingrained patriarchal systems and cycles of exploitation that continue to exist beneath the euphoria of newfound freedom and self-expression.

Reminiscent of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights in its de-eroticized search for intimacy and connection and Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother in the idea of performance as a conduit for empowerment, the film is a provocative, if overripe portrait of a society at a moral crossroads, where liberation itself can be a form of repression in its naïvete and disorientation."

STRICTLY FILM SCHOOL
Acquarello

"The movie is fresh, occasionally funny and a real crowd puller. It is a sad drama dotted with colloquial gags. (...) It is the story of women who in 1975 started working in the cinema and ended up doing S films which represented the forbidden, a raw and slightly naive eroticism in a Spain that looked at breasts without a bra out of the corner of its eyes."

LA RAZON
Carmen L. Lobo

"The Sabroso-Ayaso duo is good at making a care-free and trivial comedy (....) with brushes of a comedy of mores about a little artistic world coming to the surface from the underground. They also bring out the most and the best of their three main actresses. Los Años Desnudos have their own moment (...) a funny snapshot with hints of high comedy in the wonderful world of nudity films in the aftermath of Franco's death."

GUIA DEL OCIO
Roberto Piorno

"A keen proposal reminiscing about a sociologically significant time of the first few years after Franco's death, and specially the group of films randomly classified as S which partially fulfilled the repressed desires of the Spanish audience after the disappearance of censorship.Cinema S, which no doubt was a cinema of excesses, brings about here a strikingly restrained model that starts by reconstructing the atmosphere and crazy tone of those films shot with realism and entertainment."

El MUNDO
Alberto Bermejo

"A tragic story with a hint of a mixture of the biographies of the most famous muses of nudity films mixed up with a moralizing gloss on the massive exploitation of women."

CAHIERS DU CINEMA
Javier Mendoza