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First Effort (1979)

Director: Fernando Trueba

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From Time Out Film Guide

Romantic comedy of manners manqué, set in the post-Franco Swinging '70s and centred on a super-conventional Antoine Doinel clone and his encounters: with a sweet young thing and her swain; his waspish ex-spouse; one Belch, nihilist author of Dried Shit (subtle humour this isn't); Zoila, blue movie-maker who gets off on bestiality and ball-breaking fornication; and a bizarrely incongruous Ingmar Bergman, who luckily never appears. Well-liked in New York ('a new Woody Allen') and France ('neo-Truffaut'), this peevish and impatient portrait of Spain's late-blossoming flower generation has the generosity and incisiveness of neither.

Author: SJo

Time Out Film Guide

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Director: Fernando Trueba

Producer: Fernando Colomo

Cast: Oscar Ladoire, Paula Molina, Antonio Resines, Kitty Manver, Marisa Paredes, Luis Gonzalez Regueral full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 92 mins


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