The marriage from hell where sleeping pills are foreplay.
A dark and surrealistic comedy about a man who gives drugs to his wife, to make her sleep and avoid arguing with her.
Acting
López Vázquez's unhinged deadpan desperation.
Direction
Regueiro's grotesque domestic tableaus.
Cinematography
Sleep as visual metaphor, frames within frames.
Director
Francisco Regueiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s Spanish cinema's 'comedia costumbrista' movement, using genre to critique Franco-era gender repression disguised as domestic farce.
Regueiro allegedly wanted the film banned in Spain; the censors missed the point entirely and passed it as harmless comedy.
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