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Placido

Plácido

1961

Luis García Berlanga

Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintilla, Amelia de la Torre ...

8.1

20,884

Comedy In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"One of the best ways of insinuating subversive messages into a repressive culture has always been to present them in a humorous guise (...) Peel away the humor, and you will find acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under Franco"	POS

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