El camino

In a small town in Castille, life is made up of incidents. One sister is upset with another's fornication, because they are so alike; the priest tries to make sure that the movies shown are moral and Christian for the youngsters to neck to; and the children keep playing tricks, like stealing fruit that the owner simply gives them, and getting their teacher to to date a spinster.

There's no particular plot to this movie, even though it is engrossing simply for the characters. It's a portrait of the village and its villagers, each character sharply drawn with good humor, a certain amount of sadness, and the usual terrible problems, like the young fellow whose girlfriend is a hundred miles away. The road may stretch out to other possibilities, but the village goes on.