Coming to the Clark

"SPANISH MASTERS OF CINEMA"  FILM SERIES

In a summer when the Clark will be featuring the work of two Spanish artists, Pablo Picasso and Juan Munoz, this free film series will look at the work of six great Spanish directors.  All films will be shown in Spanish with subtitles, on alternate Fridays at 4:00 pm.

Friday, June 18, 4:00 pm

Viridiana

1962, 91 min.

Luis Buñuel returned to Spain from Mexican exile and was immediately banned for this scathing surrealist satire, which won the top prize at Cannes and eventually was hailed as a sacrilegious masterpiece, with its parody of the Last Supper as portrayed by venal peasants and beggars.

Friday, July 2, 4:00 pm

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973, 98 min.

Victor Erice takes a mesmerizing child’s eye view of rural Spain after Franco’s victory in the Civil War.  In this enigmatic, allegorical film, Ana Torrent became a sensation as the little girl haunted by visions of Frankenstein’s monster after seeing Boris Karloff in the role.

Friday, July 16, 4:00 pm

Carmen

1983, 101 min.

Carlos Saura intermingles art and life in this retelling of the Bizet opera through the story of choreographer Antonio Gades mounting a flamenco version of the classic story of Spanish passion.

Friday, July 30, 4:00 pm

All About My Mother

1999, 106 min.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning film follows Cecilia Roth as a mother who tries to cope with the death of her teenage son by seeking out the boy’s transvestite father and along the way meeting with old friends who re-enfold her into the community of women that the director always celebrates.

Friday, August 13, 4:00 pm

The Sea Inside

2004, 126 min.

Alejandro Amenábar’s Oscar-winner relates the moving and thought-provoking true story of a quadriplegic writer, superbly embodied by Javier Bardem, who mounts a campaign for the right to die with dignity and the help of three devoted women.

Friday, August 27, 4:00 pm

Pan’s Labyrinth

2006, 112 min.

Guillermo del Toro reprises many of the themes of this series in the spellbinding story of a young girl who escapes from the realities of wartime Fascist Spain into a realm of fantasy.  Sergi López chills the soul as the evil stepfather, one of Franco’s commanders rooting out the resistance.