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• Actors: Fernando Rey, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabel Mestres, Joaquín Hinojosa, Norman Briski
• Directors: Carlos Saura
• Writers: Carlos Saura
• Producers: Elías Querejeta
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Manga Films
• Run Time: 117 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000A38Z4A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,853 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Elisa, My Life (Elisa, vida mia) [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Film Credits, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: On the heels of his award-winning Cria cuevos (Raise Ravens), Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura dashed off the muted psychological drama Elisa, My Love. Geraldine Chaplin stars as Elisa, who after an absence of 20 years is reunited with her father, Fernando Rey (in a superb performance, which won him the Cannes Film Festival 'Best Actor' prize ). Having just divested herself of an unhappy marriage, Elisa hopes to heal old, long-standing family wounds. Inasmuch as Saura thrives on exploring 'unspeakable' subjects in his films, one can gather that the relationship between Elisa and her father may be far more complex than it seems at first. Elisa, Vida Mia was released in English-speaking countries as Elisa, My Love.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...Elisa, My Life ( Elisa, vida mía )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superlative and forgotten masterwork of this talented director!, September 8, 2011

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This review is from: Elisa, My Life (Elisa, vida mia) [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain] (DVD)

After receiving the news that her father (the unforgettable Fernando Rey won the Prize as Best Actor in Cannes Festival 1977 for this performance) is seriously ill with a heart condition, Elisa (Geraldine Chaplin) and her sister go to visit him at his country house where he lives alone.

Elisa has her marriage in tatters and so this visit works by heart to get away from her husband and taking time to reflect on their immediate future.

This reunion after seven years of marriage to Elisa, allows them to revisit a common past where we will detail the deep oppression of some maternal affective environment drew the whole family.

Family memories, evocative paintings of children, family moments full of deep nostalgia, are described brilliantly by Saura through revealing and precise flashbacks, leaving bare a childhood without emotional warmth to be the character of the mother like a stained dark shadow around the family group.

But Elisa grows and matures in the process of emotional decantacón when strongly challenged and tells her husband that reconciliation is impossible.

Of all the Spanish directors Carlos Saura was, surely, the most strongly influenced by Ingmar Bergman, this film is - by far - the most faithful examples of this statement.

To my view, one of his most remarkable artistic entries along its impressive cinematography .