1990 · drama · war · comedy
¡Ay, Carmela!
Directed by Carlos Saura1h 42m1990
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Our read: ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · war · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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