El pisito - M. Ferreri / I. Ferry (1959)

This is also a nice little comedy. I have to say I prefered El Cochecito.Both films were written by Rafael Azcona. I discovered I've seen so many of the films he wrote! Not all of them are comedies and most of them are interesting. He is very good at writting characters you sympathise with.

His comedies have what Habemus Papam lacked. People are simple, they are human and they have something that makes them likeable. Also, there's a strong sense of criticism of society, real society, of real people not stereotypes. A screenwriter who knows what he's talking about ad who is in touch with his contemporaries. You don't know if things happened like that but they make sense, they could have happened... that thing called verisimilitude that's so important in films. 


My favourite of his films probably is ¡Ay, Carmela! , but it's also by Saura so it has an advantage (La lengua de las mariposas was also very good). They also made a film based on a screenplay by him that was out recently. It looks very much like these 60s comedies, filmed old style too, so I'm looking forward to seeing it soon. 

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El pisito

Rafael Azcona

El Cochecito - Marco Ferreri (1960)

Small comedies. How difficult is it to find one? This one is so funny and small that it's a little jewel. I've seen quite a few Spanish comedies... I now understand where some (or most) of them are coming from.

Most comedies tend to be about nothing serious, just a bit of fun.. which isn't too bad sometimes. This film disguises in humour a very sharp criticism of the worst things of society: greed, lack of solidarity, selfishness, snobbery... also the treatment old and /or disabled people get.

The sound is a shame. The bad dubbing is the worst thing about it.

Don Anselmo is just adorable. He plays such a childish old man that you love him immediately and empathise with his cause, no matter how crazy it is. There are so many films thatjust lack that and fail to engage you.


El Cochecito