• Source: Suburbs (film)

      • Suburbs (Spanish: Adosados) is a 1996 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus based on the novel by Félix Bayón which stars Antonio Valero, Ana Duato, Jaume Valls, Lluís Homar, and Boris Nevzorov.


      Plot


      A visit to the veterinarian triggers a series of lies that jeopardizes the routine and peaceful suburban life of a successful auditor with his wife and children.


      Cast




      Production


      The film was produced by Enrique Cerezo PC.


      Release


      Suburbs was released theatrically in Spain on 9 August 1996. It also screened at the Montreal Film Festival later in August that year.


      Reception


      Godfrey Cheshire of Variety billed the film as an "awitty, downbeat allegory of middle-class fears".


      Accolades




      Themes


      The films has been studied within the scope of an examination of the "culture of the townhouse" as a "control device by the Spanish democratic governments in the 1990s through the urban restructuring of the suburbs of large cities".


      See also


      List of Spanish films of 1996


      References

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