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Cast: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña, Dora Doll
IMBD: Link
Language : Spanish
Subtitles : Spanish, English, Italian
Isabel, a spinster, becomes the target of a loutish, idle male prank in a provincial Spanish town; Juan, who has just arrived from Madrid, is induced by a bunch of idiots to pretend to fall in love with her.
In a prologue, calm male voiceover assures the audience that the story about to begin could happen at anytime, anywhere. One sees through this, however. The male heartlessness on display is intended as commentary on Franco’s Spain, with Juan’s connection to Madrid expanding the target beyond the provinces to include, implicitly, the whole of Spain. The “new” Spanish male, vicious and morally lethargic, mimics Spain’s leader, with one traditional element, a culture saturated with religion, contributing to the hypocrisy of such ungentlemanly behavior.
Calle Mayor (1956), Juan Antonio Bardem’s story of a group of provincial louts (gamberros) who play a cruel joke upon a local spinster, had an eventful history. While it was being made, Bardem, a member of the clandestine Spanish Communist Party since 1943, a founder of the subversive film journal Objetivo, and an organizer of the 1955 Salamanca Film Congress which had been highly critical of the Francoist cinema, was arrested and briefly imprisoned. The film itself was censored and an initial voice-over was added which attempted to take the sting out of the work’s critical portrayal of Spanish provincial life by claiming that the events depicted could in fact take place in any small town in any country in the world. Upon the film’s completion, it was smuggled out of Spain and, much to the Francoist authorities’ chagrin, was shown at the 1956 Venice Mostra where it won the International Critics’ Prize. (Stephen Roberts)
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Name: Main Street.Juan Antonio Bardem.1956.BluRay.GrupoHDS.mkv
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 02:11:54 +0100
Size: 4,502,566,839 bytes (4293.982352 MiB)
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Duration: 01:36:52 (5812.032 s)
Container: matroska
Production date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:20:16 +0100
Total tracks: 4
Track nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) [Calle Mayor 1956 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-GrupoHDS] {spa}
Track nr. 2: audio (A_AC3) [DD 5.1 @ 640 Kbps -> DTS-HD MA 5.1 from BD ESP] {spa}
