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10/01/03
Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A lonely little village girl who sees Boris Karloff's "Frankenstein," becomes entranced by the monster. The girl's sister convinces her the monster is still alive and she treks off into the... [More]
Starring: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria
Director: Victor Erice
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Reviews for Spirit of the Beehive
A haunting, atmospheric film that focuses on a young girl's obsession with the Frankenstein monster.
08/30/06
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03/26/09
Takes place at the particular intersection of reality and fantasy defined by youthful moviegoing.
01/26/06
Top CriticAna Torrent gives perhaps the greatest child performance of all time.
01/26/06
Top CriticEvery magic hour, light-drenched image in Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive is filled with mysterious dread.
01/23/06
Much in the film is derivative, but Erice excels in precise evocations of childhood feelings -- there is one dumbfounding moment of lyrical, joyful horror.
01/01/00
Top CriticConsidered by many as one of the key Spanish films of the Seventies.
05/07/07
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02/09/06
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07/03/05
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10/19/06
Erice meant his film as a sly social commentary, but his opinions are so well enveloped in the film's dreamy coming-of-age tapestry that moviegoers worldwide (especially younger ones) have embraced it.
06/08/06
filmmaking art of the highest caliber.
07/23/06
Ana's fearful, credulous eyes are as wide as the flat Castilian horizon, striated by clouds and railroad tracks, which reach beyond the known world.
03/24/06
...a graceful, lyrical masterpiece wound around one of the most natural and engrossing performances by a child actor we've ever seen.
09/17/06
... the finest and most beautifully wrought first film of the European '70s, a mysterious crucible as elusive, concrete, and visually primal as anything by Herzog, Straub, Olmi, or Denis.
01/25/06
Top CriticIt's a film that transports us back not just to the sights and sounds of childhood but to a core of sweet innocence and sometimes ignorant bliss.
07/06/06
Top CriticScreening in a new print so pristine you forget that this film is 33 years old, Spirit of the Beehive sweeps you into its quiet world.
03/24/06
Those who haven't seen it since the '70s may find themselves amazed all over again by its lyrical potency and grace; those who have never seen it may wonder how it can be that a film this great isn't shown somewhere all the time.
03/31/06
Top CriticA most exceptional vision of the inner life of a child just learning about the darker complexities of life.
10/06/08
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