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Victor Erice

Víctor Erice: El Sur

June 26, 2018 by Trevor Berrett

Víctor Erice’s 1983 film, El Sur, is a masterpiece that feels all the more perfect for being, technically, “unfinished.” The Criterion Collection recently released a new home video edition of the film.

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CriterionCast Episode 163: Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive

September 14, 2015 by Trevor Berrett

Once again, I had the great pleasure of joining in on a conversation with The CriterionCast, this time to discuss Victor Erice’s film about a child’s first inklings of life and death in the first years of Franco’s regime, The Spirit of the Beehive. Read the full post and find a link to the podcast.

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