Director: Victor Erice
Cast: Omero Antonutti, Icíar Bollaín
Spain 1983 | Colour | 95mins | Drama
Avaliable on: DCP
Even more than The Spirit of the Beehive, Erice’s second feature is a feast for the eyes. The exquisite compositions and lighting echo Spanish baroque painting, while various sets – the isolated family home, a cinema, an empty hotel restaurant – are invested with a numinous power wholly appropriate to a tale of a woman’s poignant remembrance of her mystery-filled childhood in 50s Spain.