Thursday, August 6, 2015, 8 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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(Víctor Erice, Spain 1973, 95 min., 35mm, Spanish w/ subtitles)
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Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country’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, 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.
Members admitted free.