Venezuela cinema: El Pez que Fuma (1977) Tue 13th Jun 2017 @ 7.30pm
The second of a season of films from Venezuela’s so-called Golden Age of cinema, El Pez que Fuma (the Smoking Fish) (1977), directed by Román Chalbaud, is the tale of a handsome young man who is released from jail and goes to “El Pez Que Fuma”, a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires him as a handy man, but he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza’s lover. Tickets £5 on the door. Email culturaembajadalondres@gmail.com for more information about this season.
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