Demons In The Garden

An emotionally packed look at Spain in the 1950s, centering on one bourgeois family and its members' ability to manipulate each other. The family is made up of two brothers, a sister, a domineering grandmother, an adopted sister (who marries the older brother while making love to the younger one), and a son who results from her extramarital, intrafamilial affairs. The story begins in 1942 but jumps ahead 10 years to postwar Spain, where Molina, the adopted sister, struggles with the factions of her family to bring up her son. Heavy on symbolism, the film contrasts the brothers--the younger is a sexual dynamo who despises commerce, adores feudal society, and eventua...