Victor Erice
Date of Birth: 30 Jun 1940
Country: Spain
Biography: Víctor Erice Aras (born 30 June 1940) is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983).
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 9 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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The artist, Antonio Lopez, tries to paint the quince tree he planted some time back in his garden. Throughout his life, he has worked on the same theme many times, almost as if it were a physical necessity. Every year, with the arrival of autumn, this need resurfaces.
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Set in rural Spain in 1940, Victor Erice's acclaimed 1973 film was simultaneously a sensitive evocation of the poignancy of childhood and, by implication, an elegy for the legacy of the Civil War. (Film Forum)
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Seven internationally respected filmmakers offer different perspectives on time and fate -- some witty, some somber -- in this omnibus film, with the stories linked by performances from jazz great Hugh Masekela.
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The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality of her father. (imdb)
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La morte rouge (2006) - Short Film
The narrative voice of the director, through his own memories, retraces his first experience as a cinema spectator: at the age of 5, accompanied by his sister to the cinema Gran Kursaal, he watches the projection of the film The Scarlet Claw (1944) by Roy William Neill, with Basil Rathbone in the part of Sherlock Holmes. An event that together with the historical events of Spain and of the Francoism, will mark forever his imagination and will influence his future experiences as a director. (KG)
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A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal. (imdb)
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A trilogy of vignettes directed by Claudio Guerín, José Luis Egea, and Víctor Erice. Dean Selmier appears in all three, playing a hippie, an American soldier, and a wanderer. In each episode, he meets an untimely, unsightly end. (mubi)
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It tells the story of an actor who disappears during filming a project after falling off a cliff into the sea. Years later he reappears, but without knowing who he is or anything about his previous life. (imdb)
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Alumbramiento (2002) - Short Film
1940. In a rural home in northern Spain life goes on, slowly. But a blood stain on a newborn might have some deep meanings.
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