2025 · comedy · history · drama
The Dinner
Directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira1h 46m2025
Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.
Our read: The Dinner (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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