Academy Awards, USA 1983
| Winner Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film
Spain
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20th Century Fox International Classics
Directed by José Luis Garci
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Rarefilmm.com)
An aging writer returns to his hometown in Spain shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. He visits familiar places from his childhood, eventually looking up an old flame. They rekindle their romance for a few days and reminisce some more about the past. He confides to an old friend that he is dying and only has a few months to live. He says some goodbyes and returns to his home at a college in California. Simple, slow, old-fashioned story that explores mortality without becoming morose. Overuses the Pachelbel canon, but I suppose that is forgivable.
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