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Spain Spain · Las Palmas
Oscar rating:
9
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 ... [+]
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  • es
October 15, 2006
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Esta es una de las joyas de nuestro cine español, una de esas comedias con ese estilo inconfundible de Berlanga, con una ambientación maravillosa, y con un plantel de actores de lujo.
Todo transcurre en Nochebuena; una letra a pagar, un muerto, una viuda, una cesta de Navidad, una cabalgata, un notario, una estrella, unas artistas de cine, un adelanto, una familia, un pobre, y... ausencia de caridad. Y todo esto contado con ese estilo narrativo que solo Berlanga sabe hacer y que atrapa de principio a fin. No tendrá idea de lo que es el cine español si no ha visto “Placido”.
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