Welcome Mr. Marshall! (Rétrospective Berlanga)

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Welcome Mr. Marshall! ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! Espagne 1953 | vostang | 78' | De : Luis García Berlanga | Avec : José Isbert, Manolo Morán, Lolita Sevilla ?-? Mention spéciale pour le scénario, Festival de Cannes 1953 *La séance du 1er octobre sera précédée d'une conférence (30') de Vicente Muñoz Puelles, écrivain, sur l'?"uvre de Luis García Berlanga. En espagnol avec traduction simultanée en français Don Pablo, the mayor of a small Castilian town called Villar del Río, is alerted to an upcoming visit of American diplomats as part of a European Recovery Plan. In order to give a surprise to its American visitors, the village mobilises itself to organise a grand reception in the purest Andalusian style. « In these times of dictatorship for the offended, Berlanga continues to be a breath of fresh satire: cutting, sardonic, irreverent, iconoclast, unique. The ability to convert, with immense lucidity, this sad story of a scathing corrosive vision of a deeply Francoist Spain, full of metaphors and double meanings, into a liberating comedy that makes us laugh at ourselves and our own miseries and contradictions, is a Berlangan miracle. » (María Cañas)