Sometimes, you just need something to believe in.
Set in 1972 during the waning years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Platillos volantes captures the social inertia and futureless existence of the industrial Catalonian town of Tarrasa. It shows the deadened stares of a society drained of life after 30 years of oppression, and the anxious rumblings of communists and capitalists alike ready to lurch forward into an uncertain future.
In this context, the lanky, social outcast Juan (Ángel de Andrés López) and the jaded, middle-aged José (Jordi Vilches) have nothing much to look forward to except the possibility of stepping off of this miserable planet into something greater, something better, something more.
'Flying saucers' indeed may be our only hope.
Platillos volantes is the kind of film that sneaks up on you: It seems so insubstantial and light, but by the end you are clutching your chair, gasping for breath, and wiping tears from your eyes because those aren't characters up there on the screen.
It's you.
"Los extraterrestres nos llaman, pertenecemos al infinito."
Set in 1972 during the waning years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Platillos volantes captures the social inertia and futureless existence of the industrial Catalonian town of Tarrasa. It shows the deadened stares of a society drained of life after 30 years of oppression, and the anxious rumblings of communists and capitalists alike ready to lurch forward into an uncertain future.
In this context, the lanky, social outcast Juan (Ángel de Andrés López) and the jaded, middle-aged José (Jordi Vilches) have nothing much to look forward to except the possibility of stepping off of this miserable planet into something greater, something better, something more.
'Flying saucers' indeed may be our only hope.
Platillos volantes is the kind of film that sneaks up on you: It seems so insubstantial and light, but by the end you are clutching your chair, gasping for breath, and wiping tears from your eyes because those aren't characters up there on the screen.
It's you.
"Los extraterrestres nos llaman, pertenecemos al infinito."