"The film doesn't dwell on a concrete reason behind Jorge's (George's Spanish moniker) whim to abandon his scientific project and lay low, he may simply get tired of the high-tech enterprise, and needs to experience and embrace some human warmth which he finds profusely in Calabuch. Gladly bedding himself down in the prison cell (it is gratuitous), Jorge first builds a bond with fellow inmate, a local smuggler Langosta (Fabrizi), who also moonlights as the village's repairman, movie projector, among others.
But what elevates Jorge to the toast of the town, aside from his amicability, is his rocket scientist backbone, appreciatively refines the local pyrotechnics to stunning effect, yet the film prosaically pares down the technicalities - there is a yawning disparity between painting the name "Calabuch" on the surface of a barebones rocket-shaped firework and exhibiting the same name in the nightly firmament through a salvo of feu d'artifice, yet the film seems to try to convince us they are on the same technical level."
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But what elevates Jorge to the toast of the town, aside from his amicability, is his rocket scientist backbone, appreciatively refines the local pyrotechnics to stunning effect, yet the film prosaically pares down the technicalities - there is a yawning disparity between painting the name "Calabuch" on the surface of a barebones rocket-shaped firework and exhibiting the same name in the nightly firmament through a salvo of feu d'artifice, yet the film seems to try to convince us they are on the same technical level."
read the full review on my blog: cinema omnivore, thanks