Childhood’s Bittersweet Wonderment: The Spirit of the Beehive
By Brian Greene
October 5, 2015Some of the most lasting works of art are those than can be appreciated on a variety of levels. Such is the case with Victor Erice’s 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive. A masterpiece of Spanish cinema, the movie is set in 1940, a year after the Spanish Civil War ended with the authoritarian,…