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Retrato de Familia
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Wikipedia article
' Retrato de Familia ' (English: 'Family Portrait') is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Antonio Gimnez-Rico. It stars Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal and Miguel Bos, making his film debut. This is Gimnez-Rico's best known film.Schwartz, 'The Great Spanish Films', p. 34 The script was written by him, based on the novel 'Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi' ('My Beloved Son Sisi'), by Miguel Delibes. The film was shot in Burgos, the director's birthplace, although the novel takes place in Cceres.Schwartz, 'The Great Spanish Films', p. 35
Plot
Spain in the 1930s. The Rubes clan is headed by the aristocratic father Cecilio, a rou in love with another woman, Paulina, although he lives with his wife and his teenage son, Sisi. His wife hates the thought and practice of normal sexuality in their marriage. Their son notes his parents' sexual frustrations but must experience his own initiation into the mysteries of love and sex. We watch Sisi grows, mature, and compete with his father for the attentions and sexual favors of the local actresses in Burgos.
One day, quite by chance, Sisi meets Paulina, his father's more or less discarded lover, and they begin a tumultuous affair. Sisi is then inducted into the army and goes off to war. News of his death arrives quickly. Apparently, Sisi was killed by a land mine while driving his army truck. His father wants his wife to bear him another son, but she refuses. The old man, broken hearted by Sisi's death, returns to his former mistress Paulina, who tells him she is pregnant by his own son. With no other legal heirs, the elder Cecilio Rubes, desperate, jumps off his mistress's balcony and commits suicide. Paulina had always wanted the elder Rubes's child but is now content with having one sired by his son.
Cast
*Antonio Ferrandis as Cecilio Rubes
*Amparo Soler Leal as Adela Rubes
*Mnica Randall as Paulina
*Miguel Bos as Sisi Rubes
*Gabriel Llopart as Luis Sendin
*Encarna Paso as Gloria Sendin
References
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