Featuring indelible performances from Raul Julia and an Academy Award-winning William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a work of radical compassion that boldly expands notions of love, gender, and revolution. In the film - directed by Hector Babenco following his international breakthrough with Pixote, and adapted from the novel by the iconoclastic writer Manuel Puig - Julia and Hurt play Valentin and Molin.