Summer 1993 (2017)
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
- Carla Simón
- Carla Simón
Rating: 7.1/10 by 200 users
Alternative Title:
프리다의 그해 여름 - KR
Sommer 1993 - NO
1993년 여름 - KR
Verão 1993 - BR
Verano de 1993 - ES
Estiu de 1993 - ES
九三之夏 - CN
Country:
Spain
Language:
Català
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $960,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: countryside, based on true story, summer, family, death of mother, childhood, woman director, 1990s
I have now watched the second of both Carla Simón's feature-length, award-winning films, and I have to say: I am in complete awe of her talent as a story-teller and a director. Even if (like Rainer Maria Rilke) this is the best she's got, then (also like said poet), it's more than enough. In Spain, after Franco finally died, a counter-culture movement, la movida madrileña, exploded into a party of art, music, film (Almodovar for one), and of course sex and drugs. As a direct consequence, so many people contracted HIV and died in late 80s and 90s (not only in Spain). This is a story of one child (Frida - autobiographically then, Carla Simón herself) who lost both parents, and was suddenly forced to adopt a new mother and father. The painful experience of adopting to a new family is told from the child's POV. It's heart-rending. It's beautiful. And it's brilliant: For 90 minutes, I kept asking myself "How in the hell did this director elicit those performances from not one, but TWO very young actors?" Everything about the movie rises to that level.
