Tierra

Spain

1996

125 Min

Color

2.35:1

Spanish

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Karra Elejalde, Silke, Nancho Novo, Txema Blasco, Ane Sánchez, Juan José Suárez

SOUND Gilles Ortion

Cannes (In Competition), AFI FEST (European Showcase), São Paulo: Critics Award - Honorable Mention

Synopsis

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an “earthy” taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a “ghost” of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople? —IMDb

Director

Julio Medem

Julio Médem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish Basque writer and film director. He was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father’s Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas (’Cows’) for which he won a Goya Award.

After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Sex and Lucia, where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style… read more

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13May12

Medem's evocative & polemic portrait of Angel/"man," torn between identities of an grounded reality and a metaphysical fantasy. Both entangled within desires for women that are opposing realities themselves. Earthly Angel finds completion within the boundless Mari, whom wants a non-physical sensuality. Ghostly Angel haunts farmer Angela, that wants a more physically present lover, filling a void left by her husband.