Mamá Cumple Cien Años (Mama Turns 100) (1979)
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For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972 Anna and the Wolves. As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco… More For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972 Anna and the Wolves. As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco regime, permitting Saura to use his greedy family as a microcosm of all that had gone bad in Spain since the Civil War. Though potentially grim, Mama Turns a Hundred is essentially a comedy, though many of the laughs are of the "shock of recognition" variety, especially for those who've come from a similarly avaricious family. The film was originally released as Mama Cumple Cien Anos. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Carlos Saura
- Genres
- Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 17, 1979 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Saura suggests a strangely hopeful discharge in the foregrounding of the characters' duplicitous charades
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Cast
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Geraldine Chaplin
as Anna
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Amparo Munoz
as Natalia
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Rafaela Aparicio
as Mother
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Fernando Fernán Gómez
as Fernando
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Norman Brisky
as Antonio
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Charo Soriano
as Luchi
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José Vivó
as Juan
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Rita Maiden
as Solange
- Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez
