Comedy · Drama · Romance
Spanish
1992 · Directed by Fernando Trueba · 109 min
Spain, spring 1931. A young soldier who has abandoned the army wanders into the countryside and is taken in by a genial, free-thinking older man who lives with his four grown daughters. What follows is a sunlit, bawdy and affectionate comedy about desire, hospitality and a country on the edge of change.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining crowd-pleaser of 1990s European art-house cinema, it showed that post-Franco Spanish film could be sensual and open rather than only angry or avant-garde, and it carried that tone to a worldwide audience.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a comedy of hospitality, where every flirtation is also a small statement about freedom and a changing Spain.
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