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Enter a house where a child sees a monster
by Víctor Erice, 1973
A girl meets Frankenstein in a Spanish village and the line between film and life dissolves.
8 October 2026

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A travelling cinema shows Frankenstein in a Castilian village, and a small girl goes looking for the monster in the woods. Erice shoots childhood as a state of attentive waiting. Almost nothing happens, and everything that does happens at the edge of the frame. The film is a ghost story about how children borrow from films to understand the adults around them.

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