The wondrous cinematography captures light so deftly at times that it is almost luminous: late afternoon sunlight across a room, snow slowly falling viewed through a window , a rain soaked street at night. Reprising her Broadway triumph, Rosalind Russell won her fourth Oscar nomination and third Golden Globe Award as the marvelous madcap who lives life to the hilt. Had the movie been completed, probably I would have known some missing links - the actual story between Laura screen pseudonym Irene Rios and Agustin. What do I like about magical realism? It has a close relationship with many - including the author of Mary Poppins and her relation with her father. As a father of three who also lost a father at an early age illness , the irrevocable sense of loss cuts deep: the look in his eyes, the sense of amiss, the intensity between knowing and not knowing. Or rather, the enigma dissipates over time.
This film feels like a meditation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Shot by cinematographer José Luis Alcaine using only natural light, the opening conveys a feeling of an enchanted world. El-Negro helps him to watch through the important events happened in his absence. . The time is the 1950's and the place a small walled town in the north of Spain where Estrella, the film's narrator, lives with her mother, Julia, and her adored father, Agustin, a medical doctor.
The director intended to take the protagonist, Estrella, south--perhaps to learn more about what memories haunted her father. I feel compelled to relate this as it has been at least ten years since I saw this film in a student union theater and it still has a powerful hold on my memory. Obviously, it's beautifully shot as well, though I find it less inventive than its sister film. But no; watch El Sur. In her teenage years where she's played by Iciar Bollain , that secret comes back.
The idea is a beautiful one, and the film sort of captures it, but only if you run with the idea yourself quite a bit between scenes. She follows him, observes him, trying to unravel the complexities of a man about whom she can never be objective. The acting, from the Estrellas of both ages Sonsoles Aranguren at 8, Iciar Bollain at 15 is pitch-perfect, and Omero Antonutti is impeccable, displaying an ability to put forth a wide range of emotions in a very select amount of movements and expressions, and whether he's lovingly essaying a letter to a past lover, or shutting the world out once his reply comes back, you may not always understand his motivations, but you get the sentiment, and you know exactly what he's going for, much in the way that a frowny face means 'sad', except that Antonutti has a range of about three inches on his face with which he brings forth this myriad of emotions. The images are every bit as gorgeous as Spirit's, and the story is, too. I enjoyed this series thoroughly. Adolescent Estrella lives in awe of her mysterious and magical father, wonderfully played by Omero Antonutti, and weary of her ever-practical mother and of their isolated life in the misty and brooding northern countryside.
Every gesture is loaded with associated meanings. Love, friendships, betrayal, death, drugs, bisexuality. Following its debut at the , Sur has collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals. She needs to know more about this man, but we know that her search is likely to be fruitless. One is quietly and adroitly drawn in by the mystery that the young daughter in 1950s Spain senses in her father. But when Jake and the puppies take off during a walk with Lisa and interrupt a wedding proposal, Lisa is mortified to discover the proposer is none other than her lifelong-friend-turned-boyfriend-turned-ex, David.
Although, because of the film's incompleteness, character motivations are murky, El Sur is still a brilliant and haunting work of art. I liked this movie, but was mildly surprised to find it getting, here, the uncritical praise it has done. A decade after The Spirit of the Beehive, Spanish director VÃctor Erice made El Sur The South , a film that has a lot in common with Beehive - a young girl whose imagination seems to translate events into the supernatural, an important father-daughter relationship, a crucial plot point being an old film played at the local cinema, the Spanish Civil War casting a shadow over the film - but it is less enigmatic. As an adult from which vantage point she is telling the story , there may or may not be understanding. It is based on ' short novel of the same name.
Narrated powerfully by fifteen-year-old Estrella, the film is composed of memories and fantasies as she seeks to make sense of the painful events of her childhood. Sonsoles Aranguren Estrella age 15. A timeless film of symbol and myth, it was voted the sixth best Spanish film in the 1996 Spanish cinema centenary. El Sur is Victor Erice consecutive second triumph as a excellent and meticulous director after a ten years period of cinema inactivity that he spend doing television commercials spots to get some money. You won't regret watching it, give it a shot!! Estrella Sonsoles Aranguren at 8 and Iciar Bollain at 15 reminds the relationship with her strange father, a blue republican medicine doctor in a northern little and still village of Spain at the fifties. She is upset when she discovers this and it changes her life a bit and her mind very much.
Everything he does is a mystery to her. He fights the bad guys, putting criminals behind bars, upholding the law at any cost, for as his adage proclaims, to live a day surmounts to pursuing justice relentlessly, whether life or death proceeds in its aftermath. I didn't cook on Sunday and ordered pizza as I was hooked to the screen. I shall not comment anything about the plot, the acting, not even about cinematography. While browsing Netflix and running out of options this show popped up as recommendation.