Brilliantly scripted with lively dialogue and vibrant characters, The Executioner is a series of conversations around capital punishment, economic strife, domesticity, and other serious issues that are somehow made to seem like fodder for comic melodrama. This 1965 Spanish film takes off from an unlikely romance between an undertaker and the daughter of an executioner who wants to retire.
The Executioner
The Executioner
Followed by a discussion with Suzana Períc
Tickets: $10 (members), $15 (nonmembers)
This film is part of the Jonathan Demme’s Rarely Seen Cinema: Suzana Períc Selects series.
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