The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
- 9.6
- 95 mins
- Drama
Storyline
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords
young girl, sister, entomologist, dreamy, eerie, village, spain, family home, countryside, childhood, imagination, psychology, quest, 1940s
Short Review
[Ana] Torrent guilelessly captures the terror and wonder of imagination's possibility that so informs childhood experience.
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