Elisa, vida mía
Spain • 1977
Director
Synopsis
In ELISA, VIDA MÍA (“Elisa, My Dear”), Carlos Saura explores one of his recurring obsessions—interplay between past and present, memory and reality—through a spellbinding portrait of a complex father-daughter relationship. Saura’s longtime companion and collaborator Geraldine Chaplin stars in an intriguing double role, playing both a woman who reunites with her estranged, now ailing father (Fernando Rey, winner of the Cannes Best Actor award) and her own mother. As the old man works away on an autobiographical novel, father and daughter each embark on a cathartic reckoning with the past.
Synopsis
In ELISA, VIDA MÍA (“Elisa, My Dear”), Carlos Saura explores one of his recurring obsessions—interplay between past and present, memory and reality—through a spellbinding portrait of a complex father-daughter relationship. Saura’s longtime companion and collaborator Geraldine Chaplin stars in an intriguing double role, playing both a woman who reunites with her estranged, now ailing father (Fernando Rey, winner of the Cannes Best Actor award) and her own mother. As the old man works away on an autobiographical novel, father and daughter each embark on a cathartic reckoning with the past.
Credits
Crew
DirectorCarlos Saura
WriterCarlos Saura
CinematographerTeo Escamilla
ComposerGiorgio Mainiero
EditorPablo G. del Amo
ProducerElías Querejeta
Cast
Fernando Reyas Luis
Geraldine Chaplinas Elisa Santamaría
Isabel Mestresas Isabel
Joaquín Hinojosaas Julián