Catalog Num:
SP-C035-1975
Program:
Romance Languages
This Cannes Film Festival winner portrays the darker side of childhood in a fascinating parable about Spain's repressive Franco regime. In haunting memories, a woman relives the disturbing summer of her father's death. Outside her father's bedroom door, the nine-year-old Ana hears him making love to his best friend's wife, then take his last gasp of breath. When, years earlier, her mother died of cancer, Ana blamed her father; now she blames herself for his demise.