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The Lost Paradise (1985 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Lost Paradise' is a 1985 Spanish film directed by Basilio Martn Patino. It stars Charo Lpez alongside Alfredo Landa, Juan Diego, Miguel Narros, Ana Torrent and Paco Rabal.
Plot
A unnamed mature woman, daughter of a Spanish Republican exiled lecturer, returns to her parents' country, where she meets a number of people from her past, including Miguel, Benito, Lorenzo and an unnamed Socialist politician. She translates Hlderlin's 'Hyperion' in the family house.
The film, an expression of the disenchantment experienced after the Spanish transition, underpins a criticism to the transition itself and the so-called 'pacto del olvido'.
Cast
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* Charo Lpez as Ella (She)
* Alfredo Landa as Benito
* Juan Diego as Minister of Culture (Javier Solana)
* as Miguel
* Ana Torrent as Andrea
* Paco Rabal
* as Lorenzo Carvajal
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* Flix Dafauce
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Production
Shooting locations included vila, Toro, Salamanca, Madrid and Zamora.
Release
The film screened at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in August 1985. It was theatrically released on 17 October 1985.
Reception
ngel Fernndez-Santos of 'El Pas', considered 'The Lost Paradise' to be a "prodigiously assembled" film, to which the camera of Alcaine "bordering on the sublime" and the musical score's intensity and coupling add up, filling it "with rare beauty", while noting that it featured a couple of events (two additions of "foreign coarseness") totally out of place.
See also
* List of Spanish films of 1985
Informational notes
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Category:1980s Spanish-language films
Category:1985 drama films
Category:Spanish drama films
Category:Films shot in Madrid
Category:Films shot in the province of vila
Category:Films shot in the province of Salamanca
Category:Films shot in the province of Zamora
Category:Films set in the 1980s
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