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Tag Archives: Fernando Rey
White Sister AKA Bianco rosso e… (1972) Alberto Lattuada, Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano, Fernando Rey
A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist. Read More »
Quintet (1979) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey
In the distant future the world is in the grip of another ice age. Read More »
Comedians AKA Cómicos (1954) Juan Antonio Bardem, Elisa Galvé, Fernando Rey, Emma Penella
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, performs only small roles Read More »
Honey AKA Miele di donna (1981) Gianfranco Angelucci, Clio Goldsmith, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey
The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. Read More »
The Woman with Red Boots AKA La femme aux bottes rouges (1974) Juan Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli
After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life Read More »
The Murri Affair (1974) Mauro Bolognini, Catherine Deneuve, Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister’s reactionary Read More »
Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Drama
When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Read More »
Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Comedy, Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »
Espionage in Lisbon (1965) Federico Aicardi, Tulio Demicheli, Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Fernando Rey, Action, Adventure
An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The authorities have reason to believe this may be true, and the spying battle is on. Read More »
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Luis Buñuel, Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Comedy
Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
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Cet obscur objet du désir / That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Luis Buñuel, Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Comedy, Drama
Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her…
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L’ingorgo: Una storia impossibile / Traffic Jam (1979) Luigi Comencini, Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Drama
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.
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