Synopsis
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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Cast
- Fernando Fernán GómezFernando
- Teresa GimperaTeresa
- Ana TorrentAna
- Isabel TelleríaIsabel
- Laly SoldevilaDoña Lucía
- Miguel PicazoMédico
- José VillasanteFrankenstein
- Juan MargalloFugitivo
- Estanis GonzálezGuardia civil
- Ketty de la CámaraMilagros, la criada
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
The Spirit of the Beehive, like "Cinema Paradiso," also takes place at the particular intersection of reality and fantasy defined by youthful moviegoing. - 90
Village Voice
Beehive is a graceful and potent lyric on children's vulnerable hunger, but it's also a sublime study on cinema's poetic capacity to reflect and hypercharge reality. - 88
Boston Globe
This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous. - 80
Chicago Reader
The extraordinary child actress Ana Torrent (Cria) made her debut here at the age of five. Much in the film is derivative, but Erice excels in precise evocations of childhood feelings.
