The superficiality of this poor film is its main failing. The Spanish Civil War was not explained at all, much less its byzantine structure, and the whole thing looked to me like an early Disney movie in Technicolor.
The music was loud, overbearing, and trite. The bullfight stuff was sanitized, romanticized, and looked like some grade-schooler's idea of what a bullfight might be like. The commentary on the part of all the actors was juvenile and to me insufferable in its naiveté.
The romantic stuff was wooden, rote, and simply ghastly, as Maggie Smith might observe.
I know a lot about the SCW and Spain and this movie represented none of it. I have no idea what caused others here to think it good.
The music was loud, overbearing, and trite. The bullfight stuff was sanitized, romanticized, and looked like some grade-schooler's idea of what a bullfight might be like. The commentary on the part of all the actors was juvenile and to me insufferable in its naiveté.
The romantic stuff was wooden, rote, and simply ghastly, as Maggie Smith might observe.
I know a lot about the SCW and Spain and this movie represented none of it. I have no idea what caused others here to think it good.