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Demons In The Garden

1982, Movie, R, 100 mins

Demons In The Garden: Review

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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 eventually becomes a servant of El Caudillo, Francisco Franco; the older is an impotent bourgeois. The young boy (Sanchez-Prieto in a startling show of naturalism) is a synthesis of the two--a melding of both the sexual and social opposites of the family. A lesser director would break under the weight of such themes, but Gutierrez Aragon handles it all with adroit grace. He even tackles a scene in which an enormous bull (a powerful macho symbol) thunders through a wedding party. The uninvited guest is nearly shot, but the younger brother protests in favor of the animal, explaining that he "just wants to play." DEMONS IN THE GARDEN is an effective and poetic film--one of a handful of such memorable Spanish pictures this year, including Carlos Saura's CARMEN, Victor Erice's EL SUR, and the Academy Award-winning TO BEGIN AGAIN. (In Spanish; English subtitles.) leave a comment
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