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El sur

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

In Spanish, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.) + 1 novella (44 pages ; 17 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida García Morales, which deepens the director's fascination with childhood, fantasy, and the legacy of his country's civil war. In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers--and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets seem to haunt him more and more as time goes on. Though Erice's original vision also encompassed a long section set in the South itself, which was never made, El Sur remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction, drawing on painterly cinematography by José Luis Alcaine to evoke the enchantments of memory and the inaccessible, inescapable mysteries of the past.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novella by Adelaida García Morales.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; interview from 2003 with director Victor Erice ; new piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2012 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and Icíar Bollaín; cinematographer José Luis Alcaine; and camera operator Alfredo Mayo ; hour-long episode of ¡Qué grande es el cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Miguel Marías, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing El Sur ; new English subtitle translation

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