Saturday 15 March at 19:15

Fernando Colomo’s first feature film, fundamental to the cinema of the Transition, is also the work that inaugurated the so-called “comedia madrileña”. The film follows the couple, Carmen and Juan, during the first democratic elections in June 1977, offering a bold and ironic portrayal of politics, drugs and sex. Ιt is a valuable document, as it depicts the way people in Spain perceived politics in the 1970s after the advent of democracy. It reveals the contradictions of those young people who, for the first time in a long time, experienced freedom and had to respond to circumstances and be modern, even though they were not equipped to understand modernity.

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