The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)
Feb 17, 2003Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster
Visually extraordinary Coming of Age story set during the Spanish Civil War in which a young girl imagines seeing the Frankenstein monster
Ana Torrent
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: From Vaux to the Sea (2004)
Apr 5, 2018Surreal Mock Biography
The second part of Peter Greenaway's massive multi-media installation, a surreal mock biography dominated by Greenaway's fascination with nonsense lists. Gorgeous to look it but does it make for a dramatically engaging a film?
The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004)
May 5, 2021Surreal Mock Biography
The third and final of Peter Greenaway’s Tulse Luper films, a sprawling mock biography that is more like a mad multi-media art installation than a film, filled with digressions, endless lists and obscure jokes
Veronica (2017)
Jan 29, 2018Haunting/"True Story"
Paco Plaza has become one of the premiere names in Spanish horror due to the [Rec] films. Here he attempts to follow in the footsteps of The Conjuring with a film based on a supposedly true supernatural incident in 90s Madrid but fails to make a terribly interesting work