As the film opens, Finney is walking through a cemetery where villagers are decorating graves on the Day of the Dead. He passes a dark-haired man with a mustache reaching for a bottle of tequila being handed to him by another villager. Several yards farther on, Finney passes the same man again, who is now drinking from the bottle.
The story takes place in 1938, but the car driven by James Villiers that almost hits Albert Finney as he is lying in the road is an MG-TF, which was manufactured between 1953 and 1956.
The film, which is set in 1938, has many visual anachronisms. First, the green MG driven by the British expat is a 1950s model. Also, Albert Finney's sunglasses look very contemporary for the 1980s, when the film was shot, and do not resemble 1930s sunglasses at all. Many of the people in the crowd scenes also sport contemporary eyewear, makeup and hairstyles which didn't exist prior to WWII.
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