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La Corte de Faraón

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DVD produced to commemorate movie's 40th anniversary, this film is about the "free democratic civilised European" Spain of the fifties-sixties of the last century.

Not a communist propaganda but a sarcastic picture embedding Franco hidden-under-a-crown fascist regime well survived and existing in then post-WWII Europe, leaves no moral rule untouched as artists were staging musical of ancient Egypt.

Incredibly sexy even for places more open-minded than then religion-obsessed Spain was, this movie accomplishes nice music and funny performing Antonio Banderas is famous for, and this recently historic work is still broadening recent minds with a historic reality so much re-explained and re-written in time following.

Great and funny, is an historical spanish situation arround the times after the civil war, where the army has the control of the country.

Everyone has their own side of the story.

Franco's Entertainment Censorship Commission has a hard bone to chew with EL CASTO JOSE, operetta that, according to them, attacks the family values, church, Franco and even the laws of decency.

The whole ensemble has been taken by the police to be interrogated, and as everyone of them has a different point of view on the same subject, they all say different things and some truths that should have remained secret, come to light.

The young author, inspired by the classic zarzuela LA CORTE DE FARAON, has only expressed his feelings and made another version on the story of José and the Egyptian Pharaoh. Never intending to mock or ridicule the government or the church. But, as each one of them sees only what they want to see, they will stay there until everything gets cleared up. The good thing is, they will do it while eating a huge paella, courtesy of Mr. Roque, the author's father.

The comedy is very agile, funny and well written. Banderas, Belén, López Vázquez, Fernán Gómez, and everybody else, are superb. Not to be missed either!