A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
Practical Effects
Those wings look disturbingly real for 1978.
Direction
Mercero balances tenderness and institutional absurdity perfectly.
Acting
Lolo García's wide-eyed silence speaks volumes.
Director
Antonio Mercero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lolo García was a complete unknown discovered in a casting call; Mercero specifically wanted non-professional innocence.
Released three years after Franco's death, the film's meditation on forced normalization reads as stealth political allegory to Spanish audiences.
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