El Sur

Synopsis

Growing up in a misty, melancholic northern Spanish town in the post-Civil War Franco era, a young girl idolizes her dowsing physician father, gradually discovering through secret love letters and a movie theater poster that his heart remained forever in the mysterious South with a woman from his past before his tragic suicide. Víctor Erice and José Luis Alcaine's luminous, breathtaking masterpiece of childhood observation and adult disillusionment.