Elisa, My Life

Director: Carlos Saura

1977 / 125min / Digital

After a 20-year separation, Elisa (Chaplin) reunites with her father, Luis, who walked out on the family long ago—the aging author is played by Buñuel regular and Spanish national treasure Fernando Rey, in a performance that earned him Best Actor plaudits at the Cannes Film Festival. An intoxicating whorl of memory, fantasy—in his literary output Luis dwells on his daughter’s imagined life, depicted here along with her own daydreams—and hard-to-swallow reality, in which an act of mandatory “reconciliation” becomes an unveiling of terrible, naked grief. “As in all of her Saura films, [Chaplin] reveals qualities of feeling, control and beauty that no other directors have ever found.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of The Remembered Lives of G. Chaplin & C. Saura