A drama made in 1973 under the direction of experienced master Carlos Saura and with an active starring of then young Geraldine Chaplin (Ana). Ana is a non- Spanish lady coming to work to a big residence as a baby- sitter. There she finds a family consisting of three brothers and their mother, two of them single and the other one married with three daughters. The presence of Ana caused a kind of revolution in the house. She was young, good-looking and using normal provocative clothes of that time. The married man became crazy about her, and started sending letters declaring his desires to be with her using different names and origin in the letters. Obviously, this was at the end known by the eldest brother, who was less attracted by Ana, but wanted her to take care of his room-museum of military clothes. He also used to practice shooting. The last brother was the one very much religious, who organized himself in a near-by cave trying to live as an abstemious man. In addition to this environment, the old mother of these brothers was a person having serious nervous problems. At the end, Ana started to sympathize with the abstemious man, who rejected her at the beginning and wanted her to cut her hairs. The presence of Ana was disturbing in that house to the extent that the wife of the married brother, jealous, wanted to kill herself. Finally Ana decided not to live anymore in that house although initially she was clearly expelled from the house. She collected all her belongings, and when she was leaving the house the three brother came over her, the married man violated her with the aid of the others, then the abstemious cut her hairs and the military-like man finally shoot her.
It is an original film of Saura, and very interesting to all who like good films.
It is an original film of Saura, and very interesting to all who like good films.