1977 · drama · melodrama
The Smoking Fish
Directed by Román Chalbaud2h 0m1977
A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
Our read: The Smoking Fish (1977) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / melodrama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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“You want a candid Venezuelan drama-comedy about ambition inside a bordello's intimate world.”
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