Event at Cinematheque & Miami Beach Film Society

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''ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE in HD'' : ''The Spirit of the Beehive'' by Victor ERICE/Spain/1973/99 mins. The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country?s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco?s long regime was nearing its end, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child?s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made. In Spanish with English subtitles. WINNER: Grand Prize San Sebastian Film Festival ?Released in 1973, in the dying days of General Franco?s forty-year dictatorship, The Spirit of the Beehive soon established itself as the consummate masterpiece of Spanish cinema.?-Paul Julian Smith