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El Sur ("The South") is a 1983 drama film directed by Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Elias Querejeta, and starred Icíar Bollaín as the adult main character. It is based on Adelaida García Morales ' short novel of the same name.
El Sur streaming: where to watch online? Currently you are able to watch "El Sur" streaming on Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "El Sur" on Amazon Video, Apple TV as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV online.
Even more than The Spirit of the Beehive, Erice’s second feature is a feast for the eyes. The exquisite compositions and lighting echo Spanish baroque painting, while various sets – the isolated family home, a cinema, an empty hotel restaurant – are invested with a numinous power wholly appropriate to a tale of a woman’s poignant ...
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Elena, Leviathan) delivers a masterpiece in this caustic look at contemporary Russian society, a failed marriage and the disappearance of a child. A major prize winner at both Cannes and BFI London Film Festival.
What a beautiful, melancholic family drama from the great Víctor Erice. Told from a girl's perspective, El sur is a sentimental insight into a mysterious father and his hidden emotional torments. Although only around half of the original script was shot, the final result is emotionally potent enough to become a timeless classic.
El Sur: A Complete Incomplete Film. At a time when Spain was trying to leave its past behind, master filmmaker Víctor Erice transported viewers back to the post–Civil War era, examining its traumas through the eyes of a child.
In the North of Spain, Estrella grows up captivated by her father, a doctor with mystical powers—and by the enigma of his youth in the South, a near-mythical region whose secrets haunt Estrella more and more as time goes on.
