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SPAIN · 1998
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Synopsis
As young children, Otto and Ana become best friends, leading to the marriage of Ana's mother to Otto's father. When Otto and Ana become teenagers, they begin a sexual relationship, which they hide from their parents. The two fall deeply in love and seem destined to spend the rest of their lives together. However, their relationship is tested when Otto's mother dies and the two are separated.
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forbidden love · step-siblings · childhood to adulthood · separation and loss · fate and destiny
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Monte Hellman, “Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive ,” Projections 4 1/2 , London, Faber & Faber, , pp. 84-6
David Ansen, “ The Spirit of the Beehive ” in Kathy Schulz Huffhines (ed.), Foreign Affairs: The National Society of Film Critics’ Video Guide to Foreign Films , San Francisco, Mercury House, , pp. 460-3
David Ansen, “ The Spirit of the Beehive ” in Kathy Schulz Huffhines (ed.), Foreign Affairs: The National Society of Film Critics’ Video Guide to Foreign Films , San Francisco, Mercury House, , pp. 460-3
Marvin D’Lugo, “ The Spirit of the Beehive
Marvin D’Lugo, “ The Spirit of the Beehive