http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2007/01/30/the-spirit-of-the-beehive/ A Deviant View of Cinema - Film, DVD & Book Reviews Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/2007/01/30/the-spirit-of-the-beehive/comment-page-1/#comment-17459 futurestar Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:22:56 +0000 http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/reviews/?p=6#comment-17459 A spanish village seemingly cut off from the rest of the civilized world in the 1940's is content to let live, each in their own private world. The only invasion? The showing of traveling cinema featuring this week's movie - Frankenstein. No censoring, no age limitations as the entire village turns out and is rendered stunned, stupefied in the aftermath. From this point on its strictly visuals as dialogue is sparse, meaning oblique, and draw what you will. If ever a film evaded plot and narrative, this would have to be a top candidate. Events, real or imagined affect children in varying degrees. Ditto adults as everyone seems lost, having no need to be found. Go figure. Many viewings required. No promise any of them affect clarity. So much for the state of film production in a 1970's Spain. A spanish village seemingly cut off from the rest of the civilized world in the 1940′s is content to let live, each in their own private world. The only invasion? The showing of traveling cinema featuring this week’s movie – Frankenstein. No censoring, no age limitations as the entire village turns out and is rendered stunned, stupefied in the aftermath. From this point on its strictly visuals as dialogue is sparse, meaning oblique, and draw what you will. If ever a film evaded plot and narrative, this would have to be a top candidate. Events, real or imagined affect children in varying degrees. Ditto adults as everyone seems lost, having no need to be found. Go figure. Many viewings required. No promise any of them affect clarity. So much for the state of film production in a 1970′s Spain.

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