Showing posts with label José María Prada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label José María Prada. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 May 2022

Ana y los lobos (1973)


 

A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.

Another allegorical and surrealist tale typical of its director serves as a biting criticism of Franco-ruled Spain, at times irritating and disturbing and in the end devastating.


 


 

Sunday, 27 March 2022

La caza (1966)


 

Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy. 

Intense psychological drama, obviously intended as a political allegory, relentlessly exposes its protagonists' toxic masculinity, suitably staged in stark black-and-white and a overheated barren landscape, entrenched in a whirlpool of absurd moments and violence (the hunting scenes are quite hard to take).