An Open Window: Víctor Erice
El Sur (Víctor Erice, Spain, 1983)
Archival Print!
- When
- Fri Jul 31, 2015
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
Archival Print!In Person/Víctor Erice
(The South)
A young girl comes of age amid the long silences and shadows of her family’s wintry northern exile in Erice’s long-awaited follow-up to The Spirit of the Beehive, which continues that work’s exploration of childhood fantasies and adult realities in a similarly hushed, becalmed tone. In the solitude of her parents’ northern home, a young daughter seeks the secrets that the south—and the past—hold. Politics, the Spanish Civil War, the breaking of family ties, or illicit loves: all seem possible in her father’s ever-growing sadness, and her mother’s deepening sighs. A Rembrandt painting come to life, El Sur is a work of muted colors and hushed tones, where a life worth living already seems to have come and gone. “A film of love and sorrow suffused with an appreciation of life’s beauty” (LA Times), El Sur tracks a nation’s and a generation’s divide.
• Written by Erice, based on a story by Adelaida García Morales. With Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona. (95 mins, In Spanish with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Filmoteca Española, permission Video Mercury)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/openwindow_erice
- Call
- (510) 642-5249 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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