- Brillante Porvenir
Infobox_Film
name = Brillante Porvenir
image_size = 170px
caption =
director =Vicente Aranda
Román Gubern
producer = Sidney Pink,
Stanley Abrams
Carlos Durán
writer =Vicente Aranda
starring = Germán Cobos
Serena Vergano
Arturo López
music = Federico Martínez Tudó
cinematography = Arturo G Larraya
editing = Santiago Gómez
distributor = Radio Films S.A.E.S.A
released = flagicon|Spain1964
language = Spanish
budget =
runtime = 93 min.
country =Spain
language = Spanish
imdb_id = 0057900|" Brillante Porvenir" (English: " Brilliant Future ") is a
1965 Spanish film directed byVicente Aranda and Román Gubern. Set in Neorealism style, the plot was inspired byF. Scott Fitzgerald 'sthe Great Gatsby .Plot
Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, leads an ordinary monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in a firm of architects. From then on, a new life opens to him. He befreinds, Lorenzo, one of his coworkers. Lorenzo more experienced than Antonio shows him a new more restless and sophisticated life in which Antonio feels out of place. He falls in love with Montse, Lorenzo’s sister and that makes him try to fit in. One night Antonio is invited to a party offered by López, a businessman to whom Antonio has had a small confrontation before. Initially reluctant to go to the party, Antonio goes just to be with Montse. He is expelled from the party. The invitation he had was bogus, falsified by Montse. Drunk and upset, Antonio returns to the party in the company of Carmen, Lorenzo’s girlfriend, who has also been turned down. They tried to make a scene and spoiled the party but are thrown out violently.
The next day Antonio tries desperately to see Montse. Her family has forbidden her any contact with him. Antonio confronts Montse for her relationship with López, but she assures him that he is the only one in her life. Upset with López, Antonio confronts him, but he is threaten by him and by Lorenzo. Antonio takes the road to Paris escaping with Montse, halfway he chages his mind and decides to leave her. Montse explains that he eventually coninued with her.
Cast
*Germán Cobos - Antonio
*Serena Vergano – Montse
*Arturo López - Lorenzo
*José Maria Angelat - López
*Gloria Osuna – Mercè
* Josefina Güell – Carmen
*Pedro Gil - LuisExternal links
*imdb title|0062836
* [http://www.vicentearanda.es Web Oficial de Vicente Aranda]
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