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In 1940, after watching and being transfixed by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven-year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world. (NR, 98 min.)
7:00 PM
This series is courtesy of Drury University's Humanities & Ethics Center (HEC). There will be a post show discussion with Dr. Tim Robbins, a professor of Spanish literature. This series is free for Students, Faculty & Staff with a Drury University ID.
In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end and widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made. [Janus]
Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Director: Victor Erice
Language(s): English, Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy
"Ana Torrent gives perhaps the greatest child performance of all time."
— Andrew Sarris, ,Observer
"Expressively played by its two young leads, it's a work which memorably captures a child's perspective on the mysteries of everyday life."
— Tom Dawson, BBC.com
"The Spirit of the Beehive, like 'Cinema Paradiso,' also takes place at the particular intersection of reality and fantasy defined by youthful moviegoing."
— Dana Stevens, The New York Times
"Beehive is a graceful and potent lyric on children's vulnerable hunger, but it's also a sublime study on cinema's poetic capacity to reflect and hypercharge reality."
— Michael Atkinson, ,Village Voice
"One of the most haunting films I have ever seen. So simple and pure and quiet and dreamlike and stimulating. A fantasy that makes more sense than what passes as reality."
— Alan Rudolph, Criterion
"Those who haven't seen it since the '70s may find themselves amazed all over again by its lyrical potency and grace; those who have never seen it may wonder how it can be that a film this great isn't shown somewhere all the time."
— Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
