History Film / EsperandoLaCarroza

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Latin America is mostly Catholic, and so Mamá Cora's "funeral" is full of people praying and reciting Hail Mary.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mamá Cora, of course.

* TheFunInFuneral: the Musicardis have no peace during Mamá Cora's funeral, first being told it's actually a Hungarian woman, then being told it's not, and ''then'' having Mamá Cora [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral show up]] alive and well.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Latin America is mostly Catholic, and so Mamá Cora's "funeral" is full of people praying and reciting Hail Mary.

* FriendOnTheForce: Antonio's shady "contacts" in the police inform him of the dead old lady found in the tracks. One of the men he asks for is in jail, probably due to [[DirtyCop being involved in the last dictatorship]]. Then, he has a friendly exchange with [IronicName Benigno [[note]]"benign" in Spanish [[/note]]]:
--> '''Antonio:''' Benigno! You got out of prison!? Good to know!

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mamá Cora, of course.

* TheFunInFuneral: the Musicardis have no peace during Mamá Cora's funeral, first being told it's actually a Hungarian woman, then being told it's not, and ''then'' having Mamá Cora [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral show up]] alive and well.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Latin America is mostly Catholic, and so Mamá Cora's "funeral" is full of people praying and reciting Hail Mary.

* FriendInTheForce: Antonio's shady "contacts" in the police inform him of the dead old lady found in the tracks. One of the men he asks for is in jail, probably due to [[DirtyCop being involved in the last dictatorship]]. Then, he has a friendly exchange with [[IronicName Benigno [[note]]"benign" in Spanish [[/note]]]:

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mamá Cora, of course.

* TheFunInFuneral: the Musicardis have no peace during Mamá Cora's funeral, first being told it's actually a Hungarian woman, then being told it's not, and ''then'' having Mamá Cora [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral show up]] alive and well.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mamá Cora, of course.
* SinisterShades: Antonio sports a pair of RayBan glasses usually associated to the police and military forces.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Well, Elvira's not really a villain, but she makes... less than savoury comments.

** --> [referring to the dead Hungarian old woman] '''Elvira:''' Damn Communist, she should have stayed in her country!

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mamá Cora, of course.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: when Cora is fondly reminiscing her late husband, she mentions: Jorge getting beat up, Sergio being starved, and Antonio being locked in a room as punishment. But according to her, that was [[DeliberateValuesDissonance good childrearing]] and they all [[BlatantLies turned out fine!]]

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since the poor woman had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* AnAesop: the caption of the FreezeFrameEnding that shows Mamá Cora leading the rest of the old people from the neighbourhood reads ''A nuestros viejos queridos'' ("Dedicated to our elderly loved ones/dear old parents"), implying that the moral of the story is that we should take good care of our aging relatives. We never know when they'll be gone.

--> '''Elvira:''' What do you mean, ''who''? The old woman! You'll see how she'll bring the corpse home.

--> *splat*
--> '''Elvira:''' The parrot shat on me. [Nora gasps]

* AnAesop: the caption of the FreezeFrameEnding that shows Mamá Cora leading the rest of the old people from the neighbourhood reads ''A nuestros viejos queridos'' ("Dedicated to our elderly loved ones/dear old parents"), implying that the moral of the story is that we should take good care of our aging relatives. We never know when they'll be gone.

--> [the parrot [[InstantlyProvenWrong cackles]

--> '''Elvira:''' The parrot shat on me. [Nora [[AudibleGasp gasps] ]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: from Mamá Cora justifying her alcoholic husband's DomesticAbuse and abusive childhood of her offspring, to the pathetic situation of Mam&aacute Cora; to Sergio's absolute [[LazyHusband laziness]] (he doesn't even pick up the phone and orders Elvira to do it), the affair between [[spoiler:Sergio and Nora]] and the hush-hush around Antonio's shady past, modern Argentinians are probably embarrassed by the manners of the Musicardis.

* DirtyCop: Antonio is implied to be one. Elvia and Sergio's daughter Matilde openly says at one point that "Everyone knows Uncle Antonio [[LesCollaborateurs got rich helping]] the ''pesada''!" [[note]] the death squads that terrorised and disappeared people during the last dictatorship [[/note]]

* Foreshadowing: as soon as [[spoiler:Nora]] sees [[spoiler:Sergio]] they flirt back and forth; she gives him a generous look at her cleaveage and then she even calls him "My unforgettable lover!" [[RefugeInAudacity right in front of everyone]]. Later, their affair is confirmed by [[spoiler:Susana]], who tells her sister-in-law she saw them leave a LoveMotel together two years ago.

* UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess: there are plenty of allusions to Antonio being connected to the last dicatorship.

The plot, set during a typical Argentine [[DinnerAndAShow Sunday family lunch]], revolves around the [[DysfunctionalFamily Musicardi clan]] having to deal with their [[ScatterbrainedSenior mother, Mamá Cora]]. The four siblings, NouveauRiche [[LesCollaboreateurs Antonio]], [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons middle-class Sergio]], [[LowerClassLout Jorge]] and [[BarefootPoverty Emilia]] don't know what to do with their aging, meddling mother, so they shuffle her around until Jorge and his wife [[HystericalWoman Susana]] get stuck with her. One day, Susana decides she's had enough of her mother-in-law screwing up [[LethalChef her cooking]] and interfering with her newborn baby, so she storms into Sergio and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Elvira's]] house. They are rather busy getting ready to meet Antonio and [[RichBitch Nora]]; none of them really tolerates [[ObnoxiousInLaws each other]], but Sergio and Elvia [[ProfessionalButtkisser enjoy sucking up]] to Antonio and Nora hoping to be in their good graces (and maybe get some money from them.)

The plot, set during a typical Argentine [[DinnerAndAShow Sunday family lunch]], revolves around the [[DysfunctionalFamily Musicardi clan]] having to deal with their [[ScatterbrainedSenior mother, Mamá Cora]]. The four siblings, NouveauRiche [[DirtyCop Antonio]], [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons middle-class Sergio]], [[LowerClassLout Jorge]] and [[BarefootPoverty Emilia]] don't know what to do with their aging, meddling mother, so they shuffle her around until Jorge and his wife [[HystericalWoman Susana]] get stuck with her. One day, Susana decides she's had enough of her mother-in-law screwing up [[LethalChef her cooking]] and interfering with her newborn baby, so she storms into Sergio and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Elvira's]] house. They are rather busy getting ready to meet Antonio and [[RichBitch Nora]]; none of them really tolerates [[ObnoxiousInLaws each other]], but Sergio and Elvia [[ProfessionalButtkisser enjoy sucking up]] to Antonio and Nora hoping to be in their good graces (and maybe get some money from them.)

* EightiesHair: especially Elvira and Dominga.

* BlackComedy: and ''how!'' From Antonio cracking [[RefugeInAudacity jokes about torture methods]], to Cora fondly reminiscing [[DomesticAbuse her abusive late husband]], to the farcical slapstick comedy with the casket, the humor in this comedy is as dark as it gets.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: from Mamá Cora justifying her alcoholic husband's DomesticAbuse and abusive childhood of her offspring, to the pathetic situation of Mamá to all the husband and Sergio's absolute laziness (he doesn't even pick up the phone and orders Elvira to do it), the

The plot, set during a typical Argentine [[DinnerAndAShow Sunday family lunch]], revolves around the [[DysfunctionalFamily Musicardi clan]] having to deal with their [[ScatterbrainedSenior mother, Mamá Cora]]. The four siblings, NouveauRiche [[DirtyCop Antonio]], [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons middle-class Sergio]], [[LowerClassLout Jorge]] and [[BarefootPoverty Emilia]] don't know what to do with their aging, meddling mother, so they shuffle her around until Jorge and his wife [[HystericalWoman Susana]] get stuck with her. One day, Susana decides she's had enough of her mother-in-law screwing up [[LethalChef her cooking]] and interfering with her newborn baby, so she storms into Sergio and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Elvira's]] house. They are rather busy getting ready to meet Antonio and [[RichBitch Nora]]; none of them really tolerates [[ObnoxiousInLaws each other]], but Sergio and Elvia [[ProfessionalButtkisser enjoy sucking up]] to Antonio and Nora hoping to be in their good graces and maybe get some money from them.

* UsefulNotes/NationalReorganisationProcess: there are plenty of allusions to Antonio being connected to the last dicatorship.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* OfCourseImNotAVirgin: Matilde tells her father Sergio "Don't tell me you think I'm still a virgin!" after she snarks to Antonio that he might be infertile, even if he does ejaculate. Sergio asks Elvira: "Did you hear that!?" and she replies from the other room: [[NoIndoorVoice "SHE JUST MEANS SHE'S NOT DUMB!! RIGHT??"]]. Matilde mockingly says "Yeah, sure mum..."

* NationalReorganisationProcess

* CompromisingCall: Elvira calls her neighbour in order to ask her to save some water for her ravioli, since they got their water supply cut. She thinks she's hung up the phone properly, so she proceeds to criticise her neighbour for always copying her Sunday meals [[RightBehindMe while she's still on the line]], eliciting an OhCrap moment when Sergio informs her she hasn't hung up. When Elvira picks up the phone...

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: from Mamá Cora justifying her alcoholic husband's DomesticAbuse and abusive childhood of her offspring, to the pathetic situation of Mamá Cora and Sergio's absolute laziness (he doesn't even pick up the phone and orders Elvira to do it), the

* BlackComedy: and ''how!'' From Antonio cracking [[RefugeInAudacity jokes about torture methods]], to Cora fondly reminiscing [[DomesticAbuse her abusive late husband]], the humor in this comedy is as dark as it gets.

* DirtyOldWoman: while the Musicardis decide what to do with the ongoing funeral, Mamá Cora is seen ogling at Sergio's dirty magazine Matilde was checking out before.

-->

* LawOfInverseFertility: Antonio and Nora can't have children, although she claims to adore them. Sergio and Elvira have teenage Matilde, whereas Jorge and Susana have recently had a baby as well. Matilde snidely remarks that Antonio might be the problem...

* GratuitousFrench: whenever the neighbourhood's French teacher Doña Gertrudis is around, you'll hear her say something in French. Even if it's completely out of place like saying "Voilá!" when Antonio [[spoiler:calls his friend asking about the dead Hungarian woman, but nobody has heard of her at the police station]].

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

--> '''Matilde:''' But have you seen a doctor? Sometimes the ''man'' is the faulty one... [gives a sideways glance to Antonio]

--> '''Matilde:''' And how can you be sure? Just because you can ejaculate doesn't-

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]
* PornStash: Matilde snarks to Sergio that she learnt about sex from "those magazines you keep in your nightstand!" Later she's seen with her friend Pocha reading that same magazine, and finally Mamá Cora is reading it with interest too!
* OfCourseImNotAVirgin: Matilde tells her father Sergio "Don't tell me you think I'm still a virgin!" after she snarks to Antonio that he might be infertile, even if he does ejaculate. Sergio asks Elvira: "Did you hear that!?" and she replies from the other room: [[NoIndoorVoice "SHE JUST MEANS SHE'S NOT DUMB!! RIGHT??"]]. Matilde mockingly says "Yeah, sure mum..."

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

--> '''Matilde:''' But have you seen a doctor? Sometimes the ''man'' is the faulty one... [gives a sideways glance to Antonio]

--> '''Antonio:''' [threateningly] I'm not ''faulty'', darling...}

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]
* PornStash: Matilde snarks to Sergio that she learnt about sex from "those magazines you keep in your nightstand!" Later she's seen with her friend Pocha reading that magazine, and finally Mamá Cora is reading it with interest too!
* OfCourseImNotAVirgin: Matilde tells her father Sergio "Don't tell me you think I'm still a virgin!" after she snarks to Antonio that he might be infertile, even if he ejaculates.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

--> '''Nora:''' I love children. Maybe that's why God made me infertile... [Susana and Jorge [[EyeRoll roll their eyes]]]
--> '''Matilde:''' But have you seen a doctor? Sometimes the ''man'' is the faulty one... [gives a SidewaysGlance to Antonio]

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]
* PornStash: Matilde snarks to Sergio that she learnt about sex from "those magazines you keep in your nightstand!" Later she's seen with her friend Pocha reading that magazine, and finally Mamá Cora is reading it with interest too!

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

* LittleMissSnaker: Matilde. Also the little mulatto boy who delivers a funeral wreath.

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]
* PornStash: Matilde snarks to Sergio that she learnt about sex from "those magazines you keep in your nightstand!" Later she's seen with her friend Pocha reading that magazine, and finally Mamá Cora is reading it with interest too!

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

* HypocriticalHumor: when Antonio comes back from talking with some relatives he says the following to Sergio:

--> '''Sergio:''' I don't think so.
--> '''Antonio:''' But yours is a dignified poverty..

--> [camera pans out to show a sticker on Antonio's windowpane: an Argentinian flag and the phrase "You have the right to live free." [[note]] This phrase was in a leaflet distributed in the Malvinas Islands during the Falklands War in 1982 [[/note]]]

--> [cut to Mamá Cora leading the rest of the elderly neighbours to the funeral]

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.

* DomesticAbuse: the patriarch of the Musicardi family got drunk and beat Mamá Cora ''and'' the children up. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they grew up in the 50s, when this was common.

* LargeHam: everyone chews the scenery to their heart's content. Susana and her hysterical screaming takes the cake.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Mamá Cora isn't dead at all; her grief-stricken children mistook a Hungarian woman's corpse for hers, since she had jumped under a train and her face wasn't recognisable.