The Animated Forest

José Luis Cuerda
Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Fernando Balbuena
1987
Spain
Completed
Spanish
107 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asEl bosque animado,is aSpainProducerwomen sex,At1987Released in year
。The dialogue language isSpanish,Current Douban rating0.0(For reference only)。
Malvís (Alfredo Landa) is sick of working like crazy for nothing. He'd rather become a bandit, that's much better, he's gonna be the fearful Fendetestas! He'll spread panic in the woods of his region. But there's a little problem: there aren't many people living in his region, everyone knows everyone and everyone is so poor, so it's going to be difficult for someone to take Malvís/Fendetestas too seriously. This is a magic story, so funny, and full of situations that will make you laugh. It's also full of characters that belong to the Spanish idiosyncrasy: the strict priest, the Guardia Civil, the old devout women, the village idiot... there's even a lost soul wandering around the woods. The great Alfredo Landa heads a cast that gathered together the best two generations of the Spanish scene: from Fernando Rey to Encarna Paso, from Manuel Alexandre to María Isbert... A cast like that would be just unthinkable nowadays. "El Bosque Animado" was the first movie of José Luis Cuerda's trilogy of rural comedies (after this one he made the surreal "Amanece Que No Es Poco", and "Así En El Cielo Como En La Tierra". Those are movies so personal that stress the Spanish culture. The young directors should take note of films like "El Bosque Animado", instead of trying to be the new "enfant terrible" and imitating the worst of US cinema.