Al really doesn’t want her there, and only tolerates her presence because she manages the household affairs, leaving him to his daydreams, the only thing that makes him happy since his wife’s demise. The two exchange shouts and insults more often than not. Al has an antagonistic relationship with the woman, who puts up with his moodiness and eccentricities with great forbearance. To whom does it belong? Amparo, Al’s housekeeper, comes in, interrupting his reverie. Meanwhile, the scarf still intrigues him. But I will not fall into your trap.” Definitely foreshadowing. Back at home, Al amuses himself by listening to his music and playing chess against a computerized board. Befuddled as to its origin, he rides away, only to find a red scarf monogrammed with a ‘G’ attached to a tree limb. Foreshadowing perhaps?Īlejandro’s cerebral concert is interrupted by an egg striking his head. It isn’t a drum, actually it is Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, a piece based on the Book of Genesis and inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost, a poem that is, in part, about the Fall of Man. Alejandro is something of a dreamer and a rebel, a man who walks to the beat of his own drum, and the drum he hears is distinct in his head. Again, he seems to be conducting an orchestra, though this time the music is in his head.

We see him first in silhouette when we first see him in the flesh, he’s riding a horse through the forest. The film opens with Alejandro (Alterio), a wealthy and reclusive widower, listening to classical music in his living room and pretending to conduct the orchestra. So imagine my surprise when I discovered she had starred in Spain’s answer to Lolita! Though Armiñán lacks the artful flair of Erice or Saura, this was a solidly directed film, and I find it strange that I had never heard of it before, only discovering it when I began to look deeper into the early career of Ana Torrent. Torrent won Best Actress for her performance at the 1980 Montreal Film Festival, as well she should have. It stars Victor Alterio as an aging but spry widower and the then 13-year-old Ana Torrent as the young girl he becomes infatuated with. El Nido is an odd little film directed by Jaime de Armiñán and is widely considered his best film. Īlthough El Nido ( The Nest) was a contender for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1981 Academy Awards, the Oscar instead went to Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.

Nevertheless, I took over 120 stills in all and sifted through them to get what I believe were the finest examples from the bunch.

Before we begin, I would like to point out that, because the quality of film available to me was relatively poor-bleary, washed out and dim-the stills taken from it are not as good as I would’ve liked. This post comprises the third and final entry in our Ana Torrent film series.

Cousin cousine 1975 torrent