Erice’s allegorical work puts you in a trance-like spell with its picturesque cinematography and disquieting mood setting as a child is haunted by James Whale’s ‘Frankenstein’ in 1940s rural Spain.
One of the holy grails of world cinema, there is an elusive, mythic halo cast over Erice’s ‘incomplete’ film, a memory piece about a daughter’s melancholy reflection of her secretive father during her post-Spanish Civil War days of childhood.
Erice is back after 31 years with a compelling but somewhat unconvincing work that is part mystery, part love letter to cinema, and a meditation on mortality, old age and the passing of time, as an unresolved case of a missing actor is reopened after many decades.
Eternality Tan 