SocialRealism — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:SocialRealism @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:53:39 +0200 Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/muerte-de-un-ciclista-1955 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" National Insurance Awareness Day /div div class="img" Muerte de un ciclista (1955)/div div class="caption" Juan (Alberto Closas) looking out at María José (Lucia Bosè) and the car after the crash. The cyclist is never shown. The scene echoes Beckett's Waiting for Godot. DP: Alfredo Fraile./div div class="txt" A car crash on National Insurance Awareness Day (USA)   ##### A couple rushing home at night hit a cyclist. Despite knowing that the man's still alive, they opt to leave the site of the #crash and never mention it again. News reports about the death of the cyclist cause a rupture; because of the couple's #class differences – she a wealthy socialite, he a former falange soldier turned university professor – because they're lovers, and because no one can know about their whereabouts on the night of the accident. "He's still alive." ### \ ##### Striking about Bardem's Muerte de un ciclista is its outsiderness in the Spanish film landscape. By adopting the visual language of both Italian #Neorealismo and Hollywood #melodrama, Bardem elegantly circumvents #Francoist censorship./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #JuanAntonioBardem #LuciaBosè #IsidroBMaiztegui #AlfredoFraile #drama #crime #romance #SocialRealism #CarCrash #Spain #Italy #1950s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)

Jun

28

National Insurance Awareness Day

Muerte de un ciclista (1955)

Juan (Alberto Closas) looking out at María José (Lucia Bosè) and the car after the crash. The cyclist is never shown. The scene echoes Beckett's Waiting for Godot. DP: Alfredo Fraile.

A car crash on National Insurance Awareness Day (USA)

A couple rushing home at night hit a cyclist. Despite knowing that the man's still alive, they opt to leave the site of the #crash and never mention it again. News reports about the death of the cyclist cause a rupture; because of the couple's #class differences – she a wealthy socialite, he a former falange soldier turned university professor – because they're lovers, and because no one can know about their whereabouts on the night of the accident.

“He's still alive.”

Striking about Bardem's Muerte de un ciclista is its outsiderness in the Spanish film landscape. By adopting the visual language of both Italian #Neorealismo and Hollywood #melodrama, Bardem elegantly circumvents #Francoist censorship.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #JuanAntonioBardem #LuciaBosè #IsidroBMaiztegui #AlfredoFraile #drama #crime #romance #SocialRealism #CarCrash #Spain #Italy #1950s ★★★★½

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