Sunday Light

Sunday Light Spanish Luz de domingo is a 2007 Spanish film directed by Jos Luis Garci and starring lex Gonzlez, Paula Echevarra and Alfredo Landa. The plot, set in rural Asturias in the early 20thcentury, is based on a novel by Ramn Prez de Ayala.

The Sunday prior to his wedding to Estrella, while the couple are in the forest enjoying an idyllic moment, everything changes with the presence of the chief, who comes to take revenge. He comes accompanied by his trusty servant, Longinus, and his three sons, who assault the couple. Urbano is tied up to a tree and beaten, while Estrella is brutally raped. However the whole assault is politically motivated as the boss says to his servant when he was denied the chance to do what have his three sons did to the girl, is political, not vice. At another point the mayor is extending its personal view of what happened Women and the laws are to be violated, provided that cause us problems.Bewildered, Urbanos response is visceral but rational, without resorting to wash his honor and take immediate revenge, as would be more suitable to the melodrama of the time. Thinking in what is best for Estrella and in the future, the family does not report or talk about the rape, and the betrothed marry. What happened serves no other purpose than to sadden the happiness of the bride and relatives. Urbano also sees and makes Juaco, his father in law, see with different eyes, the baby thaat Estrella is expecting as a result of the rape. Urbani takes the baby as his own. ........

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