In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #351.
Isabel:
Papa, have you ever picked a bad mushroom?
Fernando:
No. You know why?
Isabel:
Why?
Fernando:
Because I always do like my grandfather told me.
Fernando:
If you're not sure a mushroom's good, don't pick it. Because if it's bad, and you eat it, it's your last mushroom and your last everything...
When Ana and Isabel first go to the well, there are stones around the base. Ana steps on one to look down into the well. When she returns later there are no longer any stones so when she looks in to the well she is much too short to see down into it.
Spanish
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