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Action at a Distance: The Father in Víktor Erice’s El Sur
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Action at a Distance: The Father in Víktor Erice’s El Sur

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 / 25 September 2018

The Father is the wielder of profuse potency but it can only be maintained through distance and the renunciation of understanding, the willingness to embrace the mystery without examining it. But, necessarily, the child must penetrate that veil.

Dark Dreams of a Bright South: ‘El Sur’, a Spanish Masterpiece
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Dark Dreams of a Bright South: ‘El Sur’, a Spanish Masterpiece

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 / 19 June 2018

With Víctor Erice's El Sur, we must console ourselves with a work whose haunting near-perfection becomes the source of its perfection.