Has the same affection for cinema as Truffaut - indeed the moment the young husband Fernando Ferán Goméz (Spirit of the Beehive) races off to buy his wife Maria Dolores Pradera a melon could be straight out of an Antione Doinel episode. And the protagonist's claim - that unless the director is also the author, then he is nothing more then a foreman - is nothing short of the auteur theory itself, some years ahead of the French.
Very interesting angles (some of them so low as to be almost scary) and editing; great touches such as the end being the beginning.
Also loved the approval from his late wife as the expression in her photo changes.
With Isabel de Pomés and Alfonso Estela. The director's only film is now extremely rare, even in Spain; to be treasured.
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