Word: fernando
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directed by Fernando Trueba starring Jorge Sanz, Ariadna Gil and Fernando Fernan Gomez...
...excellent or innovative films, the stolid voters usually opt for something ponderous and portentous--recall the year that the excruciatingly tedious "Pelle the Conqueror' won over "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." So it was refreshing to watch this year's Oscar go to the Spanish entry, Fernando Trueba's "Belle Epoque." Trueba's film isn't necessarily a cinematic masterpiece, something like "The Piano." But given Trueba's more modest goal of entertainment, the film succeeds quite well...
Camacho repeated what he had said on Tuesday, that he had no intention of seeking the presidency. With Salinas' support, he could still get the nomination, but speculation now centers on Ernesto Zedillo, the murdered candidate's campaign manager, and Fernando Ortiz Arana, the president of P.R.I. There are other potential candidates among the Cabinet ministers, but party rules say the nominee must not have held senior government positions in the six months before the election -- and voting is now closer than that...
...assassination was apparently not linked to the peasant uprising in Chiapas state that began in January. Ernesto Zedillo, Colosio's campaign manager, is now considered one of the leading contenders to replace Colosio as the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), as is the P.R.I. chief, Fernando Ortiz Arana...
...short, Belle Epoque, an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, is a very ^ funny movie. Yes, really. For there's a little bit of Luis Bunuel nestled in the heart of every Spaniard, something at once black and farcical, and director Fernando Trueba is no exception. He also loves the sun-splashed romanticism of Jean Renoir; the film's cheerful look, its air of bemused wonder at the things people do when the time is right for frolic, is a homage to that most civilized of directors...