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
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A most exceptional vision of the inner life of a child just learning about the darker complexities of life. Full Review |
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Considered by many as one of the key Spanish films of the Seventies. Full Review |
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...a graceful, lyrical masterpiece wound around one of the most natural and engrossing performances by a child actor we've ever seen. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A haunting, atmospheric film that focuses on a young girl's obsession with the Frankenstein monster. Full Review |
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5/5 |
filmmaking art of the highest caliber. Full Review |
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4/4 |
It'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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Screening 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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Takes place at the particular intersection of reality and fantasy defined by youthful moviegoing.
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Ana Torrent gives perhaps the greatest child performance of all time. Full Review |
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... 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. Full Review |
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Every magic hour, light-drenched image in Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive is filled with mysterious dread. Full Review |
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