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Product Description
Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, VĂctor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida GarcĂa Morales, which deepens the director’s fascination with childhood, fantasy, and the legacy of his country’s civil war. In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers—and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets seem to haunt him more and more as time goes on. Though Erice’s original vision also encompassed a long section set in the South itself, which was never made, El Sur remains an experience of rare perfection and satisfaction, drawing on painterly cinematography by JosĂ© Luis Alcaine 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 monaural soundtrack
• Interview from 2003 with director VĂctor Erice
• New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2012 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and IcĂar BollaĂn; cinematographer JosĂ© Luis Alcaine; and camera operator Alfredo Mayo
• Episode of ¡QuĂ© grande es el cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Miguel MarĂas, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing El Sur
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Elvira Lindo, and a new edition of the 1985 novella by Adelaida GarcĂa Morales on which the film is based
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