Movies with the Meadows: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

5900 Bishop Boulevard,Dallas TX 75205

27 April, 2023

Description

Film Series: Film and Franco This spring the Meadows Museum is proud to collaborate with Dallas Film to present a series of films that deal with the effects of Franco's dictatorship. Each of these in-person screenings includes a brief talk to introduce the film and relate it to themes in the museum’s current exhibition, In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art. *While not every film in the series has an MPAA rating, they are all intended for mature audiences only. Thursday, April 27 | 7:00 p.m.: The Spirit of the Beehive / El espíritu de la colmena (1973), directed by Víctor Erice The Spirit of the Beehive 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 that presents the film Frankenstein, and she 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. Spanish with English subtitles | 99 minutes