The Lost Paradise
Theatrical release poster
SpanishLos paraísos perdidos
Directed byBasilio Martín Patino
Written byBasilio Martín Patino
Starring
CinematographyJosé Luis Alcaine
Edited byPablo García del Amo
Music byCarmelo Bernaola
Production
company
La Linterna Mágica
Distributed byUnited International Pictures
Release dates
  • August 1985 (1985-08) (Venice)
  • 17 October 1985 (1985-10-17) (Spain)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

The Lost Paradise (Spanish: Los paraísos perdidos) is a 1985 Spanish film directed by Basilio Martín Patino. It stars Charo López alongside Alfredo Landa, Juan Diego, Miguel Narros, Ana Torrent and Paco Rabal.

Plot

An 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 Hölderlin's Hyperion in the family house.

The film, an expression of the disenchantment experienced after the Spanish transition,[1] underpins a criticism to the transition itself and the so-called pacto del olvido.[2]

Cast

Production

Shooting locations included Ávila, Toro, Salamanca, Madrid and Zamora.[11]

Release

The film screened at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in August 1985.[12] It was theatrically released on 17 October 1985.[4]

Reception

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País, 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.[10]

See also

Informational notes

  1. ^ While the character is not named in the film, the character can be read as Berta from Nueve cartas a Berta (1966). The latter character is not featured onscreen in the 1966 film.[3]

References

  1. ^ Heredero 2018, p. 26.
  2. ^ Pavlović 2008, p. 106.
  3. ^ Pavlović 2008, pp. 105–107.
  4. ^ a b c García Martínez 2005, p. 101.
  5. ^ Pavlović 2008, pp. 109.
  6. ^ Naharro-Calderón 2012, p. 147.
  7. ^ Pavlović 2008, p. 111.
  8. ^ a b c Pavlović 2008, p. 121.
  9. ^ Heredero 2018, p. 25.
  10. ^ a b c Fernández-Santos, Ángel (24 October 1985). "Gran película con dos pequeñeces". El País.
  11. ^ García Martínez 2005, p. 100.
  12. ^ Marti, Octavi (28 August 1985). "La Prensa italiana y 'Los paraísos perdidos'". El País.

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