That Happy Couple (Rétrospective Berlanga)

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That Happy Couple Esa pareja feliz Espagne 1953 | vostang | 83' | De : Juan Antonio Bardem & Luis García Berlanga | Avec : Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elvira Quintillá, Félix Fernández Juan and Carmen are a modest couple living in Madrid. She is a housewife and he works as an electrician at a film studio. Their dreams of the good life come true when they win a competition sponsored by a brand of soap. «Berlanga and Bardem, the film's two writers and directors were very young authors in those years of the 1950s, full of illusion and, above all, deeply committed to their profession. Their love for cinema is materialised in the proposal of new experiential, expressive and vanguard narratives. The film masterfully shows the evolution of a couple and it creates through fantastic editing some unforgettable images that alternate between the present and flashbacks. » (Inés París)