Geraldine Chaplin goes to a Spanish home to tutor two small, motherless girls, and finds a bunch of maniacs; the grandmother is subject to rages and fits; one brother writes her anonymous pornographic letters; another dresses in antique military uniforms and interrogates her; the third has whitewashed a cave on the property and moved in to try to attain spiritual perfection. As the three men lust for her, Miss Chaplin uses the opportunity to observe and torment them.
Commenters claim there is a satire of Franco's Spain lurking behind the bizarre situations. Perhaps. Miss Chaplin's motives remain obscure to me. Sometimes she seems the amused observer, sometimes the bewildered participant. If there was an attempt at satire, it was sufficiently subtle that the censors, always on the lookout for such things, didn't notice it.
Commenters claim there is a satire of Franco's Spain lurking behind the bizarre situations. Perhaps. Miss Chaplin's motives remain obscure to me. Sometimes she seems the amused observer, sometimes the bewildered participant. If there was an attempt at satire, it was sufficiently subtle that the censors, always on the lookout for such things, didn't notice it.