840 - The Executioner (1963)

Internationally-neglected Spanish auteur Luis García Berlanga enters the collection neither with a bang, a whimper, a chop, nor a zap… but with a silenced gasp.  His celebrated black comedy somehow managed to slip past Franco’s censors to show us a man slowly, haplessly, and inevitably lured with only the best intentions to utterly compromise his moral values.  It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to be suckered into doing it.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Keisuke Kinoshita’s The Ballad of Narayama (1958).