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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A sensuous Gothic fable in which erotic menace, folklore and dream logic flow together; its playful uncertainty and period artifice echo Saragossa’s tale-within-a-tale spell.
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Why this pick
For the attraction to elaborate visual invention and mischievous metaphysical games, this is a lavish procession of bizarre encounters that repeatedly overturns narrative expectations.
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Why this pick
Its fractured medieval chronicle, tactile landscapes and mythic intensity create a similarly immersive old-world universe, though with a harsher and more tragic emotional register.
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Why this pick
Buñuel replaces a single plot with a chain of deadpan episodes that hand off to one another, matching Saragossa’s delight in digression, coincidence and elegant absurdity.
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Why this pick
A sprawling mosaic of embedded stories, chance meetings and sensual folklore, with the same wandering curiosity and pleasure in narratives opening unexpectedly inside other narratives.
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01 / THE STORY
During a battle in the Crown of Aragon town of Zaragoza (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Wallonia Guard.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Wedding guest
Condemned
