La prima Angélica (1974)

Directed by

Carlos Saura

Genre

drama film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged man revisits his childhood haunts and slips into memories of his past during the Spanish Civil War. He starts to relive those moments as if he were his younger self, blending the present and the past.

nostalgicmelancholiccontemplativeslow-pacedintrospectivedreamliketensebitter-sweet

What happens

Cousin Angelica (Spanish: La prima Angélica) is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring José Luis López Vázquez as a middle-aged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his past as the mature man he is today. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, won the Jury Prize, and was highly controversial in Spain. It was also selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 47th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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