The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.45pm
Time Out review:
Victor Erice's remarkable one-off (he has made only one film since, the generally less well regarded El Sur)
sees rural Spain soon after Franco's victory as a wasteland of
inactivity, thrown into relief by the doomed industriousness of bees in
their hives. The single, fragile spark of 'liberation' exists in the
mind of little Ana, who dreams of meeting the gentle monster from James
Whale's Frankenstein, and befriends a fugitive soldier just
before he is caught and shot. A haunting mood-piece that dispenses with
plot and works its spells through intricate patterns of sound and image.
Tony Rayns
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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