‘Virgins’: the Dandruff of ‘Landism’, From the Aesthetic and Moral Codes of the Present

El Pais

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After many years of censorship, Juan Antonio Bardem, a filmmaker of international stature with awards at the best festivals in the 1950s and 1960s, turned the typical Spanish woman of Landismo with El Puente in the beginning of 1977 and in the middle of the transition to democracy. The protagonist, played, of course, by Alfredo Landa, was a motorcycle mechanic whose dream was to go to Torremolinos to link up with the Swedish women. But what Bard…