La ocasión (1978) Poster

(1978)

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4/10
Hippy freakouts
BandSAboutMovies20 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Pablo (Javier Escrivá) and and Anna (Teresa Gimpera, Lucky the Inscrutable, The People Who Own the Dark and quite literally Hannah Queen of the Vampires) have come back to their fancy beach home to discover that someone has broken in. That means that he decides to go all Straw Dogs on the hippies or at least calling the cops on them and getting everyone but one man - the leader of the group (Ángel Alcázar, Bearkiller from Adam and Eve vs. The Cannibals) - arrested.

He soon pays them a visit and takes what he wants from both of them. This being a movie by José Ramón Larraz, you can guess what he wants from the wife.

There's an astounding scene where Gimpera slowly disrobes in front of an odd painting of the devil on the wall and man, you can tell when a scene in a movie wakes up Larraz.

This is from the era when hippies went from being the heroes of movies to being the villains. In The Occasion, they even live on a Spahn ranch-esque farm next door to the couple and their very presence drives Pablo to madness. Obviously, his wife is in no way all as upset by the intrusion into their lives; she's even less disturbed by the intrusion in her bed.
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3/10
We've seen this before
cadaverino9 March 2013
So we have some hippies, we have an uptight couple. Hippies are nude, carefree, American. Couple is rich; he's got a stick up you know where; she wants anyone else's stick up the you know where. Miscommunication ensues resulting in tragedy.

This is not Larraz's best film, nor his worst-- it just kind of exists. Some nudity, sex is limited to a few scenes at the end. Actors are serviceable; Angel Alcazar, I believe is the main hippie guy, brings an intense sex appeal that reminded me of Joe Dallesandro with a little bit more range. Film also has none of the atmosphere of Larraz's earlier work, or even Los Ritos... For Larraz completists only.
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