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...first day at school, the asthmatic boy (Manuel Lozano) wets his pants in anxiety. But his teacher (Fernando Fernan Gomez), a genius in caring for young minds, sees promise in the child. Thus begins a lovely friendship, tested to the breaking point in a Spanish village at the beginning of the Civil War. This art-house weepie, based on stories by Manuel Rivas, is impeccably Miramaxian in its Bambi-eyed child, its liberal attitude and its emotion-cuing score. O.K., but we fell for it--for the deft mood setting and the canny vignettes of young love and adult rancor...
directed by Fernando Trueba starring Jorge Sanz, Ariadna Gil and Fernando Fernan Gomez...
...last seen literally engaging in hanky-panky with Victoria Abril in "Lovers"), a young and ripely handsome soldier, ex-seminarian and cook par excellence, deserts from the army and wanders around the countryside. He runs into Don Manolo, a witty and iconoclastic old painter played by the venerable Fernando Fernan Gomez...
Between these two events, the young deserter, Fernando (the wide-eyed Jorge Sanz), having been given shelter by a retired painter and full-time ironist (superbly played by Fernando Fernan Gomez), seduces, or is seduced by, all four of the old man's lovely daughters...
...Ohio. In Cleveland, I got nearly 20,000." His first album in English, 1100 Bel Air Place, was released in the U.S. last month and sold a million copies in its first five days on the shelves. "Real Americans are coming to hear Julio now," says his press manager, Fernan Martinez. "He has shown that he's universal...
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