Placido

Placido

1962 · 84 min · ES · 7.7 (93 votes)
Dir. Luis García Berlanga · Starring Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre, Mario Bustos, María Francés · Music Miguel Asins Arbó
Comedy

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

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This film feels like a sharp, uncomfortable jab at societal hypocrisy. It's a darkly funny, yet ultimately bleak look at the chasm between the wealthy and the poor, disguised as a holiday charade. The humor is as biting as it is absurd.

darkly comedicsatiricalbleakuncomfortablesteadysocial realismblack comedyEuropean arthouseclass disparityhypocrisypovertysocial critique
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small townhomeless personbourgeoisieblack humorsocial satireworking classunpaid billsocial differenceschristmaschristmas eve
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