Tue 8 Apr 7.00pm Australian Premiere - followed by Question and Answer session
Almodóvar Presents
Disenchantment (El Desencanto)
Jaime Chávarri, 97min, Spain, 1976, Documentary/Biography
Seldom does a movie title become the label for a historical period. Soon after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's death in 1975, El Desencanto, captured the ghost of Francoism and froze it in a breathtakingly beautiful celluloid gem. The film, which evolves around the rebelliously aristocratic and humorously decadent family of the deceased Francoist poet Leopoldo Panero, has become a cult phenomenon in Spain.
Cast:
Felicidad Blanc, Juan Luis Panero, Leopoldo Panero, Michi Panero