La Prima Angelica
Carlos Saura
Luis returns to Castile to place his mother's remains in the family vault. His father was pro-Republican during the Civil War so the "pro-Franco" members of the family in a small village took him in. With them and his dear cousin Angélique, he relives that period of his life and rediscovers the little Luis that he was.
With : José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado, Maria Clara Fernandez Loaysa, Lola Cardona, Julieta Serrano
Screenplay : Rafael Azcona, Carlos Saura
Image : Luis Cuadrado
Sound : Luis Rodriguez
Music : Luis de Pablo
Editing : Pablo G. del Amo
Screenplay : Rafael Azcona, Carlos Saura
Image : Luis Cuadrado
Sound : Luis Rodriguez
Music : Luis de Pablo
Editing : Pablo G. del Amo
Production : Elias Querejeta
Distribution: Instituto de la Cinematografia de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Distribution: Instituto de la Cinematografia de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Already with The Delinquents, his first film shot in 1959, Carlos Saura suffered censorship under the Francoist regime. During the 1970's he made consecutively The Garden of Delights (1970), Anna and the Wolves (1973), Cousin Angelica (1973) and Raise Ravens (1976). These four films, showing a modern society ossified by a reactionary government opposed to progress, assailed the church, the army and the family, the three pillars of the regime, through the use of metaphor and symbolism. "Cousin Angelica is a major work of exploration of the collective memory. With unwavering rigor, it forces us to look without flinching at the many secrets of our own history. It is also a lesson in courage, ending as it does in the hellish place of "forbidden memory relived." (Charles Marcilly, film critic) "What feels original is exactly the way he deals with looking, and how the filmmaker opens himself up to looking. Taking a landscape, a character, an object, which becomes the "reactivator of memory", Luis' eye as