Drama
Spanish
1983 · Directed by Víctor Erice · 94 min
In a house on the edge of a northern Spanish town, a young girl is fascinated by her father, a reserved man with a mysterious gift and a past he never discusses. The film is told as memory, in low light and few words, and it moves at the pace of a childhood summer.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of post-Franco Spanish cinema and of the European tradition of the intimate, elliptical coming-of-age story, in which a child's view carries what adults cannot say.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a child's reconstruction: what a girl can see of her father, and what she cannot, is the story.
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