Word: francoism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time is indeed right. For the title refers to that brief moment in 1931 when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, ending the long night of decadent monarchy and preceding the still darker night of civil war and Francoism. It was a historical nanosecond when everyone felt frisky intellectually and emotionally, and this surprising film, which wears its complexities so lightly, pays sweet tribute to that spirit. It is rendered the more poignant by our knowledge -- not, of course, shared by the characters -- of how brief and repressible their irrepressibility would prove...
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