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Wed 4 Jun 2025
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A group of characters attempt to deal with the legacy of the receding past, the Spanish Civil War and the divisions it has forged within families and between generations.
Erice’s haunting second feature is a luminously rendered portrait of childhood memory that provides a fascinating companion piece to The Spirit of the Beehive. Through precise, lyrical, light-sculpted compositions Erice reinforces his status as a truly visionary filmmaker of environment, temporality and experience.
Preceded by La morte rouge Víctor Erice (2006) 34 mins – Erice’s hauntingly beautiful elegy to the memory of cinema ponders its corporeal legacy along with the ghosts of the past.
35mm print of El Sur courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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