In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed. Read more …
A richly shot, impressively acted film containing a powerful, bleak vision of both childhood and a repressive adult world.
It unfolds like a kind of morbid reverie, reverberating with strange frissons about what one generation passes to the next, and how even rebellion is a kind of heirloom. Don’t miss.
The film is a masterpiece of form and technique, and Chaplin and Torrent are both outstanding.
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General release. Check local listings for show times.
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