El Sur (The South)

El Sur (The South) (1983)

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El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella (Iciar Bollain), a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti). The girl's… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Victor Erice, Carlos Saura
Written By
Victor Erice, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Saura
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jan 15, 1988 Limited
New Yorker Films

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Exquisitely lucid and tender about childhood's shifting emotional spaces

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    for the time being i will continue to write my thoughts on films here but i'm disturbed by the imminent changes/corporate bullshit so we'll see how long this lasts. victor erice made one of the finest films of the 70s, the acclaimed 'spirit of the beehive,' then… More

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