Since 1935 until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a production company called Filmófno worked with the motivation of shooting movies in the way of Hollywood studios: that means, with a contractual situation for technical staff and artists for several movies. Luis Buñuel was elected as executive producer just for training the staff but he actually took part in some scripts. This movie "La hija Dew Juan Simón" ("The Daughter of Juan Simón") is based on a well-known song of the Spanish 30's. The song told the story of an undertaker called Juan Simón who had buried his own daughter. Included in the movie is one of the legendary scenes of all times: the international famous flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya dancing over a wood table and flirting with the main male character. Carmen Amaya some years later, when she was forced to exile in America, took part in some Hollywood movies, such as "Panama Hattie" (1942), "Follow the Boys" (1944), "Knickerbocker Holiday" (1944) and "See My Lawyer" (1945).
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A pearl
jamalax29 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It is a pearl this film to me and I laughed for a while, because you can see the Buñuelian touches of erotic fetishism, backgrounds of paintings with busty and nude statues, or, to say that they have made love, you do not see a thing, you only hear at the beginning: !Angel! And at the end, the cage of the canary that falls.
Political ideas such as the ones painted on the walls with slogans of the 1934 revolution of Asturias.
And humor, which takes the pimp to say:
Or as in other movies, put something very personal. In one his favorite cocktail, in another the explanation of how good marijuana is, and in this one that he is an follower of the philosopher Shopenhauer, and he, again puts the mouth of the pimp (who looks like Don Luis) when he says to a client:
Brilliant.
Political ideas such as the ones painted on the walls with slogans of the 1934 revolution of Asturias.
And humor, which takes the pimp to say:
- You know what it is to earn a penny honestly
- Not me, and you?
- Neither do I
Or as in other movies, put something very personal. In one his favorite cocktail, in another the explanation of how good marijuana is, and in this one that he is an follower of the philosopher Shopenhauer, and he, again puts the mouth of the pimp (who looks like Don Luis) when he says to a client:
- What there is, is neither reason nor principles, as Chupinnagüe already said
- The quadruple root of sufficient reason (can you follow now) huh?
- No, neither do you, and stop fooling around."
Brilliant.
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