OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS (SPANISH AFFAIR)
Watchable. Well scripted and acted but quite impenetrable. I've been to both Seville and the Basque Country and I speak some Spanish, yet I was perplexed. The Polish translation retaining a lot of Castillan and Basque expressions didn't help. If you're not Spanish, you put so much effort into distinguishing which is which, what it means and why it's funny that you fail to laugh. So it's fun but more of linguistic and cultural interest rather than comedy. One important message from the film is: if you want to overthrow your government, don't smoke! The excise tax funds the regime.
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