A disillusioned and depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.
Acting
Stamp's thousand-yard stare could curdle milk.
Cinematography
Barcelona never looked this beautifully, aggressively 1976.
Direction
Lorente's meta-commentary on directing feels almost uncomfortably personal.
Director
Germán Lorente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Spain's Transition era, when censorship collapsed and filmmakers suddenly had to self-regulate their new freedom — Lorente's portrait of a director losing control mirrors national anxiety.
Lorente essentially vanished from feature filmmaking after this; the industry joke was that he'd made his own career suicide note. He died in 2021 having directed only two more obscure projects.
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