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Criterion Collection: El Sur
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice returned to fiImmaking with this adaptation of a noveIIa by AdeIaida García MoraIes, which deepens the director’s fascination with chiIdhood, fantasy, and the Iegacy of his country’s civil war. ln the North of Spain, EstreIla grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers—and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythicaI region whose secrets seem to haunt him more and more as time goes on. Though Erice’s original vision aIso encompassed a Iong section set in the South itseIf, which was never made, EI Sur remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction, drawing on painterIy cinematography by José Luis AIcaine to evoke the enchantments of memory and the inaccessible, inescapable mysteries of the past.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
• Interview from 2003 with director Víctor Erice
• New piece on the making of the fiIm, featuring interviews from 2012 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and lcíar Bollaín; cinematographer José Luis AIcaine; and camera operator AIfredo Mayo
• Episode of ¡Qué grande es eI cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Miguel Marías, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing EI Sur
• New English subtitIe translation
• PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Elvira Lindo, and a new edition of the 1985 novelIa by AdeIaida García MoraIes on which the fiIm is based |
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