Las Locuras de Barbara

• 1959
• 1 hr 30 mins

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Teetering between slapstick and off-the-mark humor, this thin comedy by director Tulio Demichelli stars Silvia Pinal (about to become internationally famous in Bunuel's 1961 Viridiana). Pinal plays a pampered young woman who is used to getting what she wants and does not always behave in an exemplary manner. Because she is especially beautiful, men tend to chase after her and so an active social life has never been a problem. But settling down to one true love might be. Just when the field of suitors is reduced to only one man, troubles start to brew like never before. First there are the problems with a potential father-in-law, and next, those that crop up from simple misunderstandings ...