El jardin de las delicias

original title:
El jardin de las delicias
other titles:
The Garden of Delights (USA)
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90 min. , color
premiere:
05 November 1970
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plot synopsis:
Surreal look at a family's attempts to shock, bully, frighten, coach, and cajole Antonio Cano into regaining his memory and his management powers after an auto accident. He's middle-aged, wealthy, the leader of a family corporation. After the accident he can't remember his Swiss bank account numbers, can't sign documents, and can't lead his board of directors. His father needs Antonio's recovery to keep family control of the corporation, and Antonio's wife, children, and mistress want access to Antonio's money. They stage elaborate recreations of traumas in his childhood that mix with his own memories and hallucinations. Will they succeed? Will he come out of it?
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literature:
Kathleen M. Vernon. „The Language of Memory. The Soanish Civil War in the films of Carlos Saura“. Frieda Brown, Malcolm Alan Compitello, Victor Howard, Robert A. Martin (eds.). Rewriting the Good Fight. Critical essays on the literature of the Spanish Civil War. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State UP, 1989, 125-142.
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Director Daura tries to explore memory using flashbacks and narratives. His films are considered as a symbol of resistence against the dictatorship.
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Video