The Spirit of the Beehive
Directed by:
Víctor EriceScreenplay:
Víctor EriceCinematography:
Luis CuadradoComposer:
Luis de PabloCast:
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ana Torrent, Teresa Gimpera, Miguel Picazo, José Villasante, Estanis González, Juan Margallo, Ketty de la Cámara, Laly SoldevilaVOD (1)
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In a remote Castilian village in 1940, a bright eight-year-old with a wonderfully fertile imagination struggles in the oppressively hive-like and spiritually empty home her bee-keeping father heads. When she befriends a wartime fugitive, she pictures him as a reincarnation of Boris Karloff's outcast monster in "Frankenstein" (USA/1931)--a film that profoundly affected her when it was projected in the town hall. (official distributor synopsis)
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Sometimes a person discovers truly beautiful pearls. Here, it is wonderfully visible how "Frankenstein" is not only an allegory, although it is at the same time. This film shows that we ourselves want something that we cannot achieve, or it is possible to achieve it in a way that is not traditional and may not please others. In this, the film has immense power.
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