The Nest

Hector Alterio (CAMILLA; THE OFFICIAL STORY) and the 12-year-old Ana Torrent (CRIA!; SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE) costar in this touching story of the passionate but chaste love an aging gentleman in the Spanish province of Castille feels for a young schoolgirl who shares his love of nature. Alejandro (Alterio) spends his days horseback riding and pretending to conduct Haydn's "Creation" in the woods. His life of solitude is essentially an empty one until he is befriended by the young Goyita (Torrent) and rediscovers a passion for life, loosening his ties to his past and to his dead wife and devoting himself to his new friend. Underneath the innocence and paternalism of ...