Movie Review - Spirit of the Beehive
El Espíritu de la colmena (1973)
directed by Víctor Erice
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Knowing that the cinematographer of this beautiful picture went blind while making it says what it needs to for the loneliness and loss that make this a movie about Spain under Franco. The rest is a retort to something like Cinema Paradiso - that cloying fabrication of youth and film - and I hope it is enough to say that childhood did seem, once, as haunted and as strange.
directed by Víctor Erice
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Knowing that the cinematographer of this beautiful picture went blind while making it says what it needs to for the loneliness and loss that make this a movie about Spain under Franco. The rest is a retort to something like Cinema Paradiso - that cloying fabrication of youth and film - and I hope it is enough to say that childhood did seem, once, as haunted and as strange.
posted by NPK at 11:23 AM
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