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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Foreign Language, Romance; With: Fernando Fernan Gomez and Jorge Sanz; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Prizewinner is not the first word that comes to mind watching Belle Epoque, which earned a Best Foreign Film Oscar. It's a fanciful and often amusing sex comedy about the erotic adventures of a young deserter (Jorge Sanz) in a household of four hungry young women during the Spanish Civil War. The narrative's good-natured quality, along with some soothing cinematography, makes it a pleasant-enough affair, but it passes by as gently — and as memorably — as a soft summer breeze.B-


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Posted Dec 09, 1994
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