National
Spanish Cinema
Post-Franco cinema that went straight for the repressed: colour-saturated melodrama, Catholic guilt, and horror that treats the civil war as the original wound.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro · 2006
All About My Mother
Pedro Almodóvar · 1999
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice · 1973
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar · 2006
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