A famous singer and actor is at the peak of his career but fatigue, stress and harassment of the media makes feel unbalanced. His star began to fall rapidly and so goes into a clinic to cure his pain. Coming out, away from his audience, will spend some time at a house that is in the North, to the seashore. There he feels haunted by the story of characters who have lived in a nearby house, in one of which identifies his former secretary.
Acting
Raphael's raw, unhinged descent—pop star playing pop star cracking up.
Cinematography
Bleak northern Spanish coast as psychological landscape, gorgeous and oppressive.
Director
Mario Camus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raphael was Spain's biggest pop export in the '60s; this was his dramatic vanity project that baffled his teen fanbase.
Mario Camus later won at Cannes, but this early work captures Franco-era Spain's tension between modern celebrity culture and repressive traditional values.
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