Long Live the Bride and Groom | |
Director: | Luis García Berlanga |
Producer: | Marciano De La Fuente Cesáreo González |
Starring: | José Luis López Vázquez |
Cinematography: | Aurelio G. Larraya |
Editing: | José Luis Matesanz |
Runtime: | 83 minutes |
Country: | Spain |
Language: | Spanish |
Long Live the Bride and Groom (Spanish; Castilian: '''¡Vivan los novios!''') is a 1970 Spanish black comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Leonardo, an employee of a provincial bank, travels to Costa Brava with his mother to marry Loli, owner of a souvenir shop, with whom he has maintained formal relations for years. Leonardo is a repressed man who has erotic fantasies about young, blonde, foreign women. On his last night as a single man, he decides to go out in search of an adventure.