Luis Garcia Berlanga

Director

Spanish film director (1921–2010) known for satirical and black-comedy films that critiqued Spanish society; notable films include Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!, Plácido and El verdugo.

Worked and released films during Francoist Spain and frequently used irony and satire to critique social norms and bourgeois morality.

Confaloni's review examines Berlanga's 1973 film Grandezza naturale (Tamaño natural) as a caustic satire of bourgeois morality. The film centres on a dentist's obsession with an inflatable doll and sparked controversy and censorship debates. The reviewer defends the film as a corrosive apologue rather than simple chauvinism.

For:Fans of classic Spanish cinema, students of film, readers interested in satire and censorship

 It is evident that we are in the presence of a very corrosive apologue towards certain double-faced bourgeois morality, publicly irreproachable but privately depraved, obsessed with the desire to be modern (at the time the film was made, owning an inflatable doll had to be truly à la page).

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