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What's your favorite film by Victor Erice?

The Spirit of the Beehive
10 (45.5%)
El Sur
1 (4.5%)
Quince Tree of the Sun (The Dream of Light)
1 (4.5%)
haven't seen any
10 (45.5%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)

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Re: Director's Best: Victor Erice
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2010, 03:38:19 PM »
1. Spirit of the Beehive
2. Quince Tree of the Sun

3. El Sur



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Re: Erice, Victor - Director's Best
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2010, 12:00:20 PM »
Have not seen any, but he looks a bit like Derryn Hinch (you would need to be Australian to know him)

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Re: Erice, Victor - Director's Best
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2014, 10:56:26 AM »
1. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

The Quince Tree Sun (1992)

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Re: Erice, Victor
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2016, 02:49:55 PM »
1. The Spirit of the Beehive (3.5)
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Re: Erice, Victor
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2019, 12:10:05 AM »
El Sur (1983)
★ ★ ½
Similarities to Spirit of the Beehive with a young girl trying to understand the adult world (specifically her father) through a very limited view, connecting the mystery with cinema. (Shadow of a Doubt is briefly mentioned, but enough that you see it reflected in events here.) Despite all that, it doesn't come together in the same magical dreamy way.


La Morte Rouge (2006)
★ ★ ★ - Good
Playful short documentary in the style of Agnes Varda. Erice talks about his first cinema experience - the Sherlock Holmes feature The Scarlet Claw, which I own - expanding outward from there to make specific observations of the time and place, creating the feeling of a magical summer that possibly changed the filmmaker's life forever.

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Re: Erice, Victor
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2019, 12:10:53 AM »
1. Spirit of the Beehive
2. La Morte Rouge
3. El Sur
4. Quince Tree of the Sun

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Re: Erice, Victor
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2020, 02:35:00 AM »
I have a lot of words to put toward El Sol Del Membrillo / The Quince Tree Sun tomorrow, but for now I just want to say that the sensitive touch and visual poetry of Victor Erice has totally captured me this year. I've had like 100+ great finds and counting, but I don't know that I'll care about any of those movies quite like I do for his three feature-length films. I even add a blue The Best category for films that I have come to cherish so much, and even though Erice is new to me, that sentiment holds true for at least one of his films...

Spirit of the Beehive
The Quince Tree Sun
El Sur


Thinking ahead - way ahead - to my May 2021 month in the film club, there's a chance you see all three there.

Now just to hunt down his shorts. If Criterion would update Spirit and add Quince Tree, they could package the shorts with them as well. One can hope!
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