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The Spirit of the Beehive

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The Spirit of the Beehive
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NR,1hr 39min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
September 23, 1976
Director:
Victor Erice
Distributor:
Janus Films
Starring:
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent  ...more
Synopsis: Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and uneventful -- an allegory of Spanish life after General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. While their father (Fernando Fernán Gómez) studies bees in his beehive and their mother (Teresa Gimpera) writes letters to a non-existent correspondent, two young girls, Ana (Ana Torrent) and Isabel (Isabel Telleria), go to see James Whale's Frankenstein ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Buening, AMG Review
Director Victor Erice's films, with his painterly images, languid pace, and patient working methods (three films in the past 30 years), are reminiscent of the lyricism of Terrence Malick. The Spirit of the Beehive is about a little girl who, in the child's dreamy desire to make sense of her world, constructs a Frankenstein monster of both benevolence and violence. Its depiction of childhood is tender, ... Full Review
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