Charlie Bertsch / 26 Mar 2025
Warning From the Franco Era
Pan’s Labyrinth, Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth is about coming of age under fascism.(...)
Victor Erice
Charlie Bertsch / 20 Nov 2024
Youth Under Dictatorship
Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive
In Victor Erice’s 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive, the Spanish Civil War is felt in nearly every scene, even though overt references do not surface until the final third of the picture.(...)