Long Live the Bride and Groom is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel
Long Live the Bride and Groom (1970)ComedyRating 50/100
In this black-comic sex farce, middle-aged bank clerk Leonardo (José Luis López Vázquez) travels to the Mediterranean tourist town of Sitges to marry his bride-to-be, Loli (Laly Soldevila). Their beach holiday doesn’t go quite as planned, however, as the vacationing foreign women catch Leonardo’s wandering eye and fuel his erotic fantasies. And then there’s the problem of what to do when Leonardo finds his mother floating dead in a swimming pool . . .
Cast: JosĂ© Luis LĂłpez Vázquez, Laly Soldevila, JosĂ© MarĂa Prada, Manuel Alexandre, Luis Ciges, VĂctor Israel, Xavier VivĂ©
Director: Luis GarcĂa Berlanga