Stress Is Three (1968)

Original title

Stress-es tres-tres

Directed by

Carlos Saura

Genre

drama film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

18

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple in 1960s Spain go on a road trip while dealing with problems in their relationship. Their conflicts are tied to the pressures of a changing consumer society and old moral restraints.

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What happens

Stress Is Three (Original title: Stress-es tres-tres) is a 1968 Spanish road drama film directed by Carlos Saura. The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Fernando Cebrián as a troubled married couple. Their marital problems are partially a consequence of Spain's rapidly modernizing consumer society. Saura explains that his film is "the study of the crisis in a seemingly developed society, the crisis of the modern Spaniard who, underneath the new veneer, is still a medieval man, who still has working within him the old taboos and moral repressions from his religious past." The film is experimental in nature, whereby Saura moved away from several of the formulas of his previous two films, Peppermint Frappé and La caza. Saura noted, "At the root of it, I had the sense that in Peppermint Frappé I was very constrained by story and I wanted to unbind myself. So, I made Stress Is Three, Three as a kind of liberation." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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