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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
Erice’s earlier film shares El Sur’s hushed, child-height perspective, postwar Spanish shadows, and sense that adult grief becomes an almost magical mystery.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1983 1h 35m ESP
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
El Sur
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Raise Ravens
Why this pick
Its young protagonist moves through a family world shaped by absence, memory and unspoken pain, with the same poised, intimate slowness.
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Why this pick
A severe, emotionally enclosed Spanish family drama whose restrained images and silences let buried longing and control accumulate quietly.
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The Day of the Beast
Why this pick
A more modern Spanish option, but it similarly turns a young person’s observations of a guarded father into an atmosphere of longing and unresolved history.
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Why this pick
Its patient attention to childhood, rural rituals and understated family feeling offers the same luminous, memory-like pace as El Sur.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
This film tells the story of a little girl (''Sonsoles Aranguren'') living somewhere in the north of Spain and fascinated by the secrets of the south seemingly buried in the traits of her father (''Omero Antonutti''). In her childhood, Estrella's father is a mysterious world. Growing up, she finds out that he once had a sweetheart (''Aurore Clément''), and that he is still in love with her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Omero Antonutti
Agustín Arenas
Francisco Merino
Enamorado
José Vivó
Camarero
María Massip
Estrella adulta (voice)