Let The Drink Talk

[Fernando77]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064105/

The literal translation is "The wolf's woods" but the action take place in the Ancines Woods, a small wood in northwestern Spain (Galicia) in 1902 (if I remember well).

I have just finish the download of this film, imposible to find in Spain at the shops.

The main character is interpreted by the gorgeous Jose Luis López Vázquez (The guy in the phone box, just in my avatar right now). This guy is called Benito Freire and work as ambulant seller. He buy goods in some place and deliver them to another where these goods are imposible to find. As an ambulant seller he knows all the paths through the woods in the area and some people use him as a postman. He seems to not write or read. At the begining we could see Benito Freire arriving to a small village and bringing a letter to the priest (the only one who read). The letter is for a woman who has a small daughter. the letter is from another woman who travelled several months ago with the company and the lead of Benito Freire to another better village and in the letter the woman says that she is now working for a good noble and wants the company of the woman. The letter says also that she could find a good job there too (there she could make a better future o her daughter). So the woman goes to the village in company with Benito Freire... During the walk through the Ancines Woods, Benito become nervous and angry, the eyes (oh, my god, what eyes!) looking to the woman with anxiety, and his hands around her neck... He killed and buried her...
Of course, Benito isn't a werewolf in strict sense. He's a psycho, a maniac, who can't avoid killing womans and childs and then muffle himself in the soil of the woods...

The film shows extraordinarily the folclore and the customs of northwestern spain (Galicia) in the early days of 20ty century. Also, you could see the particular funeral customs and the amazing QUEIMADA (but not with the spell, because the one that made it was the priest).

Amazing film but imposible to find. If someone can download it I promise to make you the english subtitles (my english is not good but... )




I forgot it: the film is based upon book: "El bosque de Ancines", by Carlos Martínez-Barbeito. http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/90e2c30d1f7bab1e.html

I have just found a review of the film by the new york times (very little): http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=159130
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[Johnny]

Sounds very black and haunting. The sort of film Hollywood would love to make but comes up short 99% of the time.
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[Fernando77]

Hollywood would make a remake. Benito Freire could be Tom Cruise...


A couple oy years ago, It was made another view of the same myth, "o lobisome" (in Galicia), "alobado" or "hombre-lobo" (in spanish), the werewolf. Romasanta, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374180/, but this film isn't so true as López Vázquez's one. Julian Sands is good actor but never so good as López Vázquez (have you ever seen a beauty blonde ambulant seller in the Galicia of early 20th century?). And the López Vázquez's one have tons of folclore...
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[Fernando77]

I find very interesting the fact that Benito Freire (whose real name was Manuel Blanco Romasanta) pretended to don't be cappable of write or read and use those letters to take away womans from her villages...
In Romasanta film the director don't use this interesting point. He is more like a Don Juan...
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