SPA26 Retrospectives
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RETROSPECTIVE: UNCANNY ALLEGORY
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
El ángel exterminador
Luis Buñuel’s surreal satire of bourgeois fragility, where guests inexplicably cannot leave a dinner party, incorporates repetition, decay, and claustrophobia to explore social collapse, and the hidden savagery beneath civility.
Luna Leederville
Monday, June 15
Session 9:00pm
THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
El espinazo del diablo
Marking its 25th anniversary, Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War blends political allegory with supernatural melancholy. Unfolding through a lyrical visual style and restrained horror, it delivers a haunting meditation on memory and historical guilt.
Luna Leederville
Tues, June 23
Session 8:30pm
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
El espíritu de la colmena
Through haunting imagery and sparse dialogue, Víctor Erice’s meditation on innocence and mortality explores childhood, imagination, and trauma in post–Civil War Spain. Using Frankenstein as a symbolic lens, this drama establishes a poetic, enigmatic style that shaped Spanish arthouse cinema.
Luna Leederville
Tuesday, June 30
Session 8:40pm
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