Demons in the Garden (1982)
Directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Family Drama |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - Spain |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Demons in the Garden (Demonios En El Jardin) dwells upon three generations of an agrarian Spanish family. Most or all the family members have come of age since their country's Civil War. Fact becomes legend and legend becomes fact concerning that conflict, while the family is destroyed from within by corruption and long-smoldering rivalries. All of this is told from the point of view of the youngest (and, we are to assume, least emotionally damaged) family member. Demons in the Garden is very much in tune with the other multi-generational works of director Manuel Aragon, most of whose films can be regarded as creative cannonades aimed directly at the now-dead Franco regime.
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aunt, childhood-adventures, coming-of-age, corruption, custody-battle, dysfunctional, family, manipulation, war