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Edinburgh – Institut Français d’Ecosse
May 16, 2025 @ 18:00
Marian A. Aréchaga, director and curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, will introduce an exclusive showreel of some of the titles to look out for during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. This will be followed by an introduction to the film by Dr Gustavo Taboada, also of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
Have a laugh in one of the darkest corners of Spanish history with Clara Bilbao’s debut black comedy, a Spanish-French co-production based on the 1947 pulp novel by Raymond Queneau. Set in the autumn of 1945, right after the establishment of Franco’s dictatorship, a group of ‘Maquis’ rebels are on their way to escape across the French border. They abruptly decide to hijack a post-office in a seemingly helpless town where they will find an unsuspected threat among their hostages: Remedios Buendía (Carmen Machi), an ultra-Catholic woman bound to marry a Francoist general who won’t let some petty anarchists spoil her big day. Odd girlboss or fascist lunatic? That will be up to you to decide in a hysterical battle where no ideology will be left unscathed.
"Carmen Machi leads the fray in this reverse-engineered Spanish civil war shoot-’em-up."
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