Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Spanish film about a group of dock workers living in industrial north Spain who
are left unemployed when the dockyard is shut down. They end up spending part
of each day drinking at a bar and talking, while each man is struggling with
issues of personal dignity and self-worth. With Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Jose
Angel Egido, Jose Angel Egid and Nieve De Medina. Directed by Fernando León de
Aranoa. In Spanish with English subtitles. [1:55]
SEX/NUDITY 4 - A man kisses a woman's neck and caresses her
clothed breast, a man kisses a woman's cheeks, and a man and a woman hug. A
woman puts on her bra as a man watches from bed (we see her bare back and he is
wearing underwear and a T-shirt). A man gets into bed with his wife (she's
sleeping). A woman's top opens and reveals cleavage. A woman in a bra applies
deodorant in a few scenes. Women on a television wear mini-skirts and one wears
a bikini. There is flirtation and the suggestion that there may be a sexual
relationship between a man and a teenage girl.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A man lies dead on a ledge over a doorway (he
apparently jumped) and we see him again in a coffin. During a protest people are
hit with sticks, tear gas canisters are launched into a crowd, and men line
tires up along a road and set them on fire. A man and a woman argue and a man
yells at another man. We see people cleaning fish in a canning plant. A man
throws a rock breaking a street lamp, and a man breaks a glass pane with his
elbow. A woman spits in fish that she has cleaned in a plant. An apartment is
filthy, with garbage in bags all over.
A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we
started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were
not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please
keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period.
While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are
limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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