A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
1988 · 90 MIN · IMDB 5.1 · 123 VOTES · DIR. Fernando Birri
Overview
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the creature. Soon the Old Man is the subject of curiosity seekers as Elisinda and Pelayo start charging admission. A traveling carnival of human oddities camps near the Old Man as people flock to see the show. The Old Man is reduced to being an unwanted pet, and after six years, he mends his wings and flies away. Nudity, simulated sex with a spider woman, and the ugliness of human exploitation definitely put this fantasy in a category not for children.
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00:02:19 A very old man with enormous wing
00:08:59 His fever's gone.
00:10:28 Came down from the sky...
00:12:25 Against the risks of ingenuity...
00:13:10 He'll write to his Archbishop...
00:14:50 Martians preparing to invade the Caribbean.
00:20:47 Everybody!
00:23:09 imagine people are looking at you.
00:26:38 You're committing a sin, Luis!
00:30:59 He's dead!
00:37:23 when others are killing each other...
00:38:41 Only to die in a bed.
00:43:54 Pelayo, please. god-dammit!...
00:45:03 Only twenty cents...
00:51:13 will make it hard!
00:53:38 Generous hearts and respectable public...
00:55:09 Move over...
00:57:03 An applause!
01:00:46 each of your dirty little coins,
01:06:34 Where's that fucking lucky. Come on...
01:10:29 I told you...
01:15:15 I've had enough of you.
01:22:00 And tell Father Gonzaga to get on the ball.
01:24:16 He flew away, the angel.
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