Packet 6: Tossup 15

Early in this film, a woman narrates a letter to a previous lover over a sequence of her husband working outside which eventually cuts to that woman in front of an amber-colored window. A shot in this film of two characters running downhill towards a faraway house in a desolate field (15[1])dissolves into a shot where the only differences are the shadow of the clouds and the position of the two young girls.The protagonist of this film discovers her (*) older sister pretending to be dead by lying face down in front (10[1])of a broken flower pot and an open (-5[1])door. After running away to the woods, this film’s protagonist sees a classic film (10[1])monster reflected in a lake following an earlier (10[1])viewing of Frankenstein at a mobile cinema.. For 10 points, Victor Erice directed what film that follows six-year-old Ana’s life in a rural village in Francoist Spain? ■END■

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