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Synopsis
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Cinematic DNA
I watched Fassbinder's films again, particularly Querelle... The film itself didn't influence Matador, because it's completely different, but the general concept of desire in Querelle and its visual abstraction might have influenced me.
The film itself didn't influence Matador, because it's completely different, but the general concept of desire in Querelle and its visual abstraction might have influenced me.
— Pedro Almodóvar · Almodóvar on Almodóvar (collected interviews by Frédéric Strauss), p. 48
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Monte Hellman, “Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive ,” Projections 4 1/2 , London, Faber & Faber, , pp. 84-6
David Ansen, “ The Spirit of the Beehive ” in Kathy Schulz Huffhines (ed.), Foreign Affairs: The National Society of Film Critics’ Video Guide to Foreign Films , San Francisco, Mercury House, , pp. 460-3
David Ansen, “ The Spirit of the Beehive ” in Kathy Schulz Huffhines (ed.), Foreign Affairs: The National Society of Film Critics’ Video Guide to Foreign Films , San Francisco, Mercury House, , pp. 460-3
Marvin D’Lugo, “ The Spirit of the Beehive
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