sentences:  The film is a grotesque drama, with some elements of comedy.Set in Barcelona in the 1980s, "El Amante Bilingüe" takes an ironic approach to Catalan linguistic policies, nationalism and eroticism with a pattern of double identity that was based on elements from the author's life.Juan Marés (an anagram of the author's name) is a Catalan man from a humble background, the son of a frustrated zarzuela seamstress and an illusionist known as Fu-Ching.