Plácido

This corrosive Christmas story by Rafael Azcona and Luis García Berlanga, recounts the adventures of a motorbike-car driver, hired in a sordid advertising promotion campaign called "Sit a poor man at your table." As with other films of the period, life in the provinces is opposed to the emergence of the new consumer society, in a blend that is neither paradoxical nor sad. The balance does not fall on either of the two forms of life, because for both there is a look of despair.