Berlanga's first collaboration with scriptwriter Rafael Azcona*, Plácido is a jet-black comedy that was originally entitled Seat a Poor Person at Your Dinner Table before the film ran afoul of the censors. Plácido González, played by the great Catalan comedian Cassen, uses his tricycle to deliver fruit baskets for a local charity while trying to figure out how he can come up with the money he owes before his tricycle gets repossessed. A bevy of local society women decides to take in beggars and other unfortunates, although they soon discover more about the objects of their charity than they'd rather know. Berlanga takes aim at the false piety on display, as acts of generosity are revealed to be little more than events on a social calendar. There are many hilarious situations and unexpected reversals, yet all the laughter can't cover up the strong sense of outrage that courses through the film.
-- Film Society of Lincoln Center
Description: 1961, same year Luis Buñuel's 'Viridiana' won the Cannes Golden Palm, Luis Garcia Berlanga directed 'Placido' (another masterpiece in wich grotesque dark humor was used to portrait the miseries of Franco's dictatorial society). 'Placido' was written by Rafael Azcona, one of the most caustic screenwriters during dictature, and also responsible of Berlanga's 'El verdugo'. Despite it's criticism to the Regime and catholic institutions 'Placido' could be released in Spain (unlike Buñuel's 'Viridiana' that was banned until Franco's death). Berlanga was lucky because censors did interpret his film as a plain 'harmless choral comedy', insteat of the cruel satire of hipocrisy and fake charity that it was.
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