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Cousin Angelica / La prima Angelica
Series: Commitment and Grace: The Films of Carlos Saura [Apr. 17 - May 3 2007]
Director: Carlos Saura, Country: Spain, Release: 1974, Runtime: 107

Rumor has it that upon seeing Cousin Angelica at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Luis Buñuel broke down in tears. Indeed, for many Spaniards, the experience of the film was overwhelming: perhaps no other film had so openly captured the feelings of the losers of the Civil War, the Republicans—a combination of guilt, shame, rage and fear, made all that much more horrible having been repressed for decades.

Some time after his mother’s death, Luis (José Luis López Vázquez) decides to bury her remains in the family crypt in Segovia. On the way, he passes the sights of his childhood, stirring memories of the summer of 1936 and the outbreak of the Civil War. At the heart of this story is his cousin Angelica, not only his first love but the symbol of all that he has lost.




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