The shadow of Frankenstein

PostED THE  15.10.2014 AT 5:35PM

With its bright, saturated colors, the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar seems far from the dark shadows of Frankenstein and yet…!

  The Lumière festival offers you the chance to (re) discover The Skin I Live In, a film noir of the Spanish master (based on a thriller by Thierry Jonquet) that reveals what he owes to Gothic literature. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), the surgeon, and Vera (Elena Anaya), a young woman he is holding captive, are - like Victor Frankenstein and his creature - inextricably linked by an unspeakable pact that defies all human laws. In another Spanish film on the program this year, The Spirit of the Beehive, little Ana discovers, stunned, the scary face of Boris Karloff in James Whale's Frankenstein. However, whereas most children would turn away in horror, Victor Erice's little heroine seems to identify with the creature and goes looking for him. In Almodóvar's films, as in Erice's, the creature embodies fiction, the creator symbolizes the artist. And the creature gradually slips away from the control of the creator as we advance in each movie ... An irresistible device that plunges fan buffs only deeper into their cinephilia!