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El Sur (1983)

The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present

El Sur

Victor Erice | Spain | 1983 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

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.

Format: 35mm
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Source: National Film and Sound Archive
Courtesy: Video Mercury Films
Runtime: 95 mins

Event duration

95 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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