Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

FilmCriticLalitRao Spanish film 'El Sur' is a poetic meditation about an extraordinarily complex father-daughter relationship which takes place in a remote location in North Spain.Although this film does not have any grandiose narrative structure, nevertheless it manages to attract viewers' sympathies as all characters have been given ample screen time to present their view points.Taking today's films as yardstick,the pace of this film is little slow but a fairly regular sequences of events does all possible justice to the topic portrayed.By making 'El Sur' Spanish director Victor Erice has created a sincere work of art about the richness of family life.Based on a novel by Spanish writer Adelaida García Morales,El Sur gives a very clear idea about the hidden identity of a person.It is through this film viewers learn that the secrets of some identities are revealed only when somebody is compelled to come to the bottom of a past life in order to throw some light on that person's motives for putting oneself in that situation.Lastly,every country is made to grapple with its north versus south division.It is also evident in this film as people from south left their area in order to settle in north Spain.

kurosawakira Beauty that reveals more beauty. Erice's sense of light and shadow is painterly beyond belief, especially in how it's used in transitions and to actually denote an internal change in the scene. I wonder why so few directors think this way. Perhaps because it's too subtle and too difficult, two things that don't go hand in hand (you can be subtle if it's easy, or it can be difficult as long as you're as unsubtle as possible so that you people see what you're doing). Tarkovsky, Malick and Tarr come to mind who share a similar affinity with light, Kubrick as well.Knowing that the director initially wanted to film the second half as well brings an essential contextual dimension of incompleteness - hopes of relationships projected onto an idea of an unknown future, never seen in the film; a past similarly untold and hidden (of one's parents, in this case). And that moment in the cafè! As a father of three who also lost a father at an early age (illness), the irrevocable sense of loss cuts deep: the look in his eyes, the sense of amiss, the intensity between knowing and not knowing. The fact that Antonutti looks like a younger Arvo Pärt only adds to it, if you're familiar with the latter's work.I haven't yet seen Erice's third film, "El Sor del Membrillo" (1992), but based on these two transcendental experiences it should be a perfect match to go with two wonderful contemporary films on painters, Rivette's "La belle noiseuse" (1991) and Pialat's "Van Gogh" (1991).

puteolum There's no doubt that Erice is one of the best Spanish directors ever, and each film he's made is an absolute masterpiece. I shall not comment anything about the plot, the acting, not even about cinematography. I'm writing this post in order to give IMDb's users a little information which, I think, may solve some questions about this film (why its plot is so "episodic"? why the DVD copy seems a low-quality one? etc): well, actually "El Sur" is an unfinished work! The production was stopped due to money trouble, and Erice wasn't able to complete his film with Estrella's travel to the mythical South named in the title. Many years later, Erice himself explained this film's odyssey in a recorded interview for the Spanish TV.

mac-55 Surely, at least for me, this movie is the best one of Spanish movies since the times of BIENVENIDO Mr. MARSHALL. The best of all is the interpretation of the first girl, SONSOLES ARANGUREN and the Italian actor, OMERO ANTONOUTTI. But about all, the best of the movie is the photograph with the marvelous darkness. I recommend it for all the people that love the real and authentic "CINE".