Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

1989 · 110 min · ES · 7.0 (113 votes)
Dir. José Luis Cuerda · Starring Manuel Alexandre, Rafael Alonso, María Ángeles Ariza, Aurora Bautista, Elisa Belmonte, Arturo Bonín · Music José Nieto

It seems the same as always, but it is something never seen.

Comedy

Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a motorcycle with sidecar to travel together. Father and son arrive in a remote mountain village seems empty, what happens is that all residents are in church every day, because the Mass is a true spectacle. Jimmy and Theodore are discovering the peculiarities of the people, attend the elections held each year to appoint mayor, priest, teacher... In addition, the town has come a group of students at the American University of Eaton, a Belgian meteorologists, a dissident group of the Russian Army Choir, invading people's hidden above...

VIBE

A darkly comedic and surreal journey into the heart of rural absurdity. Expect bizarre encounters and existential ponderings wrapped in a quirky, off-kilter package. It’s a film that embraces the strange with a knowing wink.

absurdistdarkly comedicsurrealquirkysteadyblack humorsurrealismquirky indiefamily dynamicsrural lifeexistentialismabsurdity
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