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Synopsis
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
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Pedro Almodóvar is someone I have seen all the movies of, and 'High Heels' and 'All About My Mother' are two of my favorite films from him, and they really influenced me.
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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
Marvin D’Lugo, “ The Spirit of the Beehive