ELISA, VIDA MIA
(ELISA, MY LIFE)
[503]

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Director: Carlos Saura

Genre: Art House

Country: Spain

Year: 1977

Fernando Rey stars as Luis, a contemplative writer, now in his sixties, who years ago moved to an isolated cottage in rural Spain to escape everything he hates about modern life. He is visited by his daughter, Elisa (Geraldine Chaplin), who he had abandoned years ago when he decided to leave her mother and become a writer. As the film opens Luis is reading from a memoir he is writing, but the story he's telling is written from the point of view of Elisa.

Director Carlos Saura uses the full range of narrative possibilities in this film, including internal monologues, dreams, fantasies, wish fulfillment, and multiple view points. Sometimes Saura switches the narrative from Elisa's point of view to her father's internal imagining of what she's telling him. When she tells her father the story of her husband having an affair with her best friend, Sophia, it ends in a wildly unbelievable fashion. Is this story a wish fulfillment of hers? Or was the fantasy in the mind of her father as he writes the story of her visit?

The film presents a stream of consciousness narrative that allows the characters to take shape not just through their words and actions, but actually through the progression of their thoughts. Saura has stated that one of the inspirations for the film was photograph of Geraldine Chaplin as a child that her mother had given to him.

DVD FEATURES

Widescreen Version

Spanish Audio

Optional English subtitles

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ELISA, VIDA MIA

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ELISA, VIDA MIA(ELISA, MY LIFE)[503]Stock Status: Out of Print

$0.00

ELISA, VIDA MIA
(ELISA, MY LIFE)
[503]

Stock Status: Out of Print