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Elisa, My Love / Elisa, vida mia
Series: Commitment and Grace: The Films of Carlos Saura [Apr. 17 - May 3 2007]
Director: Carlos Saura, Country: Spain, Release: 1976, Runtime: 125

“Following the death of Franco, I lost all interest in politics, because what there was before was so brutal, so potent, and what we had to destroy was so powerful, that what came after was nothing but little quarrels amongst uninteresting political groups.”—Carlos Saura

His first film after the start of the transition to a democratic Spain, Elisa, My Love is a work of great subtlety and complexity, even for a director who had already filmed some of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious narratives. Sisters Elisa (Geraldine Chaplin) and Isabel (Isabel Mestres) go to visit their ailing father Luis (Fernando Rey) for his birthday. The family shares an awkward reunion. As everyone is preparing to leave, Luis invites Elisa to stay. Puzzled but intrigued, she accepts. Thus begins an extraordinary process of communion, as the two recount experiences that reveal remarkable parallels in their lives. Fernando Rey received the Best Actor award for his work in the film at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.




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