The main character of "El anacoreta" is a man (wonderful Fernan Gómez) who has decided to live in his bathroom and not going outside never (well, the bathroom is pretty big). The movie follows this special man in his routine life and specially when he writes messages to anonymous addressees, putting them in bottles and throwing them by the WC. One of these messages arrives to "destiny" as one girl from Italia picks one bottle from the sea and comes to visit the man. The movie has two special points of interest: 1) its amazing originality and 2) its wonderful portrait of a man loneliness. "El anacoreta" is one of the best spanish movies of the 70s.
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Offbeat and rare comedy with great acting by Fernando Fernán Gómez as a peculiar anchorite
ma-cortes10 May 2021
This one deals with an anchorite : Fernando Fernan Gómez, living more than 11 years in a boisterous bathroom . It is a sort of apartment where he receives guests and a lot of strange visitors . He sends messages through the toilet hole by throwing aspirin tubes, finally a young girl : Martine Audo picks it up and she then becomes a new visitor deciding to live with him.
Strange and outlandish comedy , in which Fernando Fernando Gómez gives a terrific acting . He plays an anchorite with limited contacts out of his lively room , his relation with people are reduced to visitors who eventually show up . It is an outlandish flick in shoestring budget with script from prestigious Rafael Azcona and director Juan Stelrich himself , in fact the only set results to be the bustling bathroom . Being based on The Tentation of Saint Antoine 1874 wriiten by Gustave Flaubert of Madame Bovary and regarding as well as paying tribute to Simon of the Desert 1965 directed by the great Luis Buñuel. The film is passable thanks to the excellent interpretations , exception for the gorgeous French co-starring Martine Audo of brief career , providing a lousy and wooden interpretation along with brief nudism scenes , being her voice dubbed . Support cast is frankly excellent with notorious Spanish secondaries as Charo Soriano, Marisol Ayuso , Angel Álvarez, Isabel Mestres, Pedro Beltran, Rafael Albaicin, Luis Ciges , Sergio Mendizabal , Ricardo Lillo, Fernando Sanchez Polack, among others . And being a Spain/France coproduction , also appearing the French actor Claude Dauphin.
It contains an adequate and atmospheric cinematography by Alejandro Ulloa who photographed the terror cult movie Horror Express. The motion picture was well directed by Juan Estelrich , and it was success enough . He was a prestigious producer manager and producer who financed various international coproductions in the Sixties and Seventies as Ten Little Indians, Long Live Robin Hood, Justine de Sade, Fumanchu and the kiss of death, Castle of Fumanchu, Seven Secrets of Surmuru, Battle of the Bulge, Tristana, Tamaño Natural and TV series as Desastres de Guerra and Count Montecristo. And working for notorious filmmakers as Luis Buñuel, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Peter Collinson or Jesus Franco.
Strange and outlandish comedy , in which Fernando Fernando Gómez gives a terrific acting . He plays an anchorite with limited contacts out of his lively room , his relation with people are reduced to visitors who eventually show up . It is an outlandish flick in shoestring budget with script from prestigious Rafael Azcona and director Juan Stelrich himself , in fact the only set results to be the bustling bathroom . Being based on The Tentation of Saint Antoine 1874 wriiten by Gustave Flaubert of Madame Bovary and regarding as well as paying tribute to Simon of the Desert 1965 directed by the great Luis Buñuel. The film is passable thanks to the excellent interpretations , exception for the gorgeous French co-starring Martine Audo of brief career , providing a lousy and wooden interpretation along with brief nudism scenes , being her voice dubbed . Support cast is frankly excellent with notorious Spanish secondaries as Charo Soriano, Marisol Ayuso , Angel Álvarez, Isabel Mestres, Pedro Beltran, Rafael Albaicin, Luis Ciges , Sergio Mendizabal , Ricardo Lillo, Fernando Sanchez Polack, among others . And being a Spain/France coproduction , also appearing the French actor Claude Dauphin.
It contains an adequate and atmospheric cinematography by Alejandro Ulloa who photographed the terror cult movie Horror Express. The motion picture was well directed by Juan Estelrich , and it was success enough . He was a prestigious producer manager and producer who financed various international coproductions in the Sixties and Seventies as Ten Little Indians, Long Live Robin Hood, Justine de Sade, Fumanchu and the kiss of death, Castle of Fumanchu, Seven Secrets of Surmuru, Battle of the Bulge, Tristana, Tamaño Natural and TV series as Desastres de Guerra and Count Montecristo. And working for notorious filmmakers as Luis Buñuel, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Peter Collinson or Jesus Franco.
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