La prima Ang%C3%A9lica


Cousin Angelica Spanish La prima Anglica is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring Jos Luis Lpez Vzquez as a middleaged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his past as the mature man he is today. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and was highly controversial in Spain.

After this first remembrance of his carsickness, Luis continues his journey. Arriving in Segovia, he makes contact with his aunt Pilar and his cousin Anglica, his sweetheart during his Segovian captivity. Anglica is now married to Anselmo, a successful businessman, and has a daughter of her own, also named Anglica, who is just about the age her mother was when she and Luis were sweethearts. The reunion rekindles old memories for Luis.In these remembrances, the past is not merely evoked, but reenacted with Luis literally entering a time warp. Characters Luis has met in the present appear to him playing the role of relatives he remembers thirtysix years earlier. The child Anglica of 1973, plays the role of her own mother, Luiss cousin Angelica, as he thinks he remembers her from 1936 Anselmo is imagined as Anglicas fascist father. When Luis recalls scenes from his childhood, he walks into them as the middleaged man he is. ........

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