Academy Awards, USA 1981
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Spain |
Quartet Films
Directed by Jaime de Armiñán
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
Cultured, slightly eccentric, elderly widow Hector Alterio lives a reclusive life. One day while exploring the woods by his home he finds handwritten love notes. He goes on a quest to find the writer which leads him to 13-year-old Ana Torrent acting in a school production of Macbeth. Their friendship gradually leads to professions of love and a blood promise to never part. However, she begins to manipulate him by asking him to perform tasks to prove his love, ultimately going as far as murder. Spanish variation on Lolita has its uncomfortable moments, naturally, and a totally unexpected ending. However, it is never credible and I just wanted to slap Alterio's character back to reality.
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