Sunday 29 November 2015

El Espirítu de la Colmena / The Spirit of the Beehive (1973 Victor Erice & scr)

Fabulous, mesmerizing study of the mysterious world of children, particularly one girl (the amazingly natural Ana Torent) who becomes fixated with Frankenstein after being shown it in their village in Castile in 1940.

Seriously beautifully shot by Luis Cuadrado, giving us white skies and a burned out landscape, with gorgeous lighting from candles, fires, sun and moon. And you can in fact see the light changing, which I love.

With: Fernando Ferán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Isabel Telleria (the other girl). The kids are great.

Music by Luis de Pablo.

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