El fascista, la beata y su hija desvirgada

A below average Spain/Venezuela comedy with silly incidents and a sour critique to post-Francoist period, just death Franco and his burying at Valle de los Caidos . Set in Segovia where Juan : José Luis López Vázquez is the typical fascist married to a stiff spouse called Leonor : Amparo Soler Leal , while he usually makes love a prostitute : Linda Lay in a Madrid hotel . Along the way, Juan goes bankrupt when a building that is being built does not have planning licenses , being stopped by municipal authority , then he goes bankrupt . That's why he attempts to marry his daughter Gloria : Patricia Rivera to wealthy man's son : Rafael Machado in order to get money enough. Then, at Juan's house appears Jaime : Urdaneta, Leonor's brother , who long time ago and due to the Spanish Civil War emigrated from Spain to Venezuela . A bit later on , Jaime invites Gloria a vacation in the sunny Venezuela . There Gloria loses his virginity, then things go wrong due to her rigid , jealous suitor.

Ironic and very mediocre comedy made in old style , but adding a lot of erotic scenes and nudism in charge of Linda Lay and Patricia Rivera. It is a disconcerting comedy, though it has some diversion, as well as naughty and sleazy situations . The picture describes the post-Franco epoch, including political satire , egoism , adultery , Catholic religion repression , urbanistic corruption, and traditional social habits about virginity . It is a nutty Spanish comedy that offers no intellectual stimulus whatsoever , though it has brief hilarious and funny moments . Humor is sometimes cheesy and gross-out with numerous naughty and picaresque situations . It is a simple , plain and humorous portrait of a time when the Spanish people live in the seventies depicting how the Spaniards lived in the Seventies, and with a special observation for the hypocrisy, corruption and deceit of the upper classes and bourgeois ones . Film about recient post-Franco period , but the plot is infumable , badly-paced and implausible , it does not take advantage of its base of satire and tends towards nonsense jokes , ridiculousness , graceless and too much stereotypes . Stars two good actors : José Luis López Vázquez and Amparo Soler Leal giving passable acting in spite of his ridiculous roles. As López Vázquez overacting as the typically extreme fascist and Soler Leal as the ordinary strict wife with double moral . Being accompanied by some familiar faces , such as : Maria Luisa Ponte, Estanis González, Alberto Fernández and Jesús Puente .

It contains an atmospheric cinematography by cameraman Jose Garcia Galisteo, shot on various locations in Segovia, Madrid, Hilldeberg and Caracas, Venezuela. This Spanish/Venezuelan co-production picture was lousily written and directed by Joaquin Coll Espona who subsequently directed a sequel : El Fascista, Doña Pura y el Follon de la Escultura, furthermore other inferior comedies and dramas , such as : Jugando a papas, Las locuras de Jane, Las camareras, La casada y la menor, Las correrias del Vizconde Arnau, Los Embarazados, Virginidad perdida, Mi adultero esposo, La gran quiniela, among others. Rating : 3.5/10. Bottom of barrel. Two thumbs down.

First of all, sorry for my English, it is my second language. This movie reflects a way of living and thinking of an upper middle class Spanish family few years after dead, in 1975, of dictator Franco. It is a specific Spanish old fashioned style (so called costumbrism) of ironic comedy about realistic people with a lot of satiric moments.

The main topics of this film are: superiority of certain social classes, assuming that laws are not for them; lying and abusing as a way of living; double religious moral and sexual repression; economic intrigues as a way of obtaining personal benefits. In the movie, all those topics happened in a post-dictatorship society, although they are pretty alive in the current democratic societies. What most impacted me is this fact, how much parallelism you can find in current societies.

With the eyes of the current viewer, this movie has two characteristics that complicate the assessment in order to be consider it a good movie: it has very local aspects of the old Spanish society, which maybe misunderstood if you are not a middle-age Spaniard; it has an over-actuation style of characters that belongs to an old school. But if you are interested in those aspects, is it worth watching the movie. It will make you laugh a lot.