This film is not just one of the great results of Saura and Geraldine Chaplin creative and marital union, but one of the rare movies where the environment, the house here, takes the main role.
The huge, abstract, pre-minimalist concrete house (by Spanish architect Carvajal) transforms itself during the whole film running, setting the path to the main characters paranoia. The images that Saura produces are enigmatic, surrealist, funny, and in a strange way therapeutic, and they are deeply rooted in Spanish cubism and surrealism. It is probably one of the most contemporary and interesting film by the director, not recognized, yes, but a great unexpected value anyway.

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

故事发生在1940年的葡萄牙，16岁的马诺洛（豪尔赫·桑斯 Jorge Sanz 饰）和8岁的赫苏斯被送进了一家肺病疗养院中。在这里，马诺洛是年龄最大的孩子，因此自然而然的成为了疗养院里的孩子王。马诺洛结识了疗养院的院长伊莲娜（薇诺妮卡·福克 Verónica Forqué 饰）以及个性古怪的女教师唐娜（达兹·莱姆波瑞娃 Chus Lampreave 饰）。
在原本负责照顾马诺洛的护士维森塔（Violeta Cela 饰）被辞退之后，新护士玛利亚（玛丽贝尔· 瓦度 Maribel Verdú 饰）接替了这份工作，温柔善良的玛利亚很快就吸引了马诺洛的注意，让情窦初开的他深深的陷入了爱情中无法自拔。

文学教师乌尔赛（Jordi Mollà 饰）来到一座海边的小城工作，甫一落脚，他就被附近饭店内的店主女儿玛蒂娜（Leonor Watling 饰）深深吸引，其时玛蒂娜的父母寄希望于女儿同房产商谢拉（Eduard Fernández 饰）结合，乌尔赛绕过玛蒂娜父母与她频繁约会，在山上、在海边有马头石的岩洞，乌尔赛似乎有无数神秘的故事可讲，玛蒂娜坠入爱河，假装怀孕终于获得父母首肯与乌尔赛结合。两人婚后生下儿子，商人谢拉仍对玛蒂娜念念不忘，不久乌尔赛出海失事，家人搜寻不到他的遗体，只好先为他举办了葬礼，玛蒂娜改嫁谢拉。几年后，一通突然打来的电话将玛蒂娜来回那些海边的浪漫记忆，原来乌尔赛并未身亡，他再次回到小城，在玛蒂娜安排的地方秘密住下，两人回到了热恋时的状态，但这段关系的结局不甚明朗。
本片获2002年西班牙圣后迪奖最佳西班牙男演员奖。

1967 film by Carlos Saura

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