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Spanish Comedy Icon Fernando Colomo’s ‘The Delights of the Garden’ Swooped on by Latido Films in the Run-up to Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
‘The Delights of the Garden’ reprises Colomo’s central themes 0f adaptation to new times and culture clashes, here between father and son
As in many of Colomo’s films, from his milestone debut “Paper Tigers” (1977), a bitter-sweet comedy of manners set in the run-up to the Spain’s 1977 general election, its first in 40 years, “Delights” captures the protagonist in crisis, adapting with difficulty to a new context. Here it is not Spain’s sudden modernity (“Paper Tigers”) nor an bewildering New York (“Skyline,” 1984), nor new sexual modes (“Polyamory for Dummies”) nor an ancient Andalusian village (“South from Granada,” 2003) but rather the onset of old age, fading professional fame and return of a prodigal son which allows the director to explore another leitmotif: the culture clash. In it, Fermín García Lopez, a well regarded abstract artist attends the announcement of a million-dollar competition to create a reinterpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
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