Peppermint Frappé

Peppermint Frappé

THURSDAY
OCTOBER, 19.00
THURSDAY
13 OCTOBER, 13.00
SUNDAY
16 OCTOBER, 17.00

Production date: 1967
Running time: 92’
Medium: DVD
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo
Peppermint Frappé, which won Saura his second Golden Bear a year after The Hunt, was also the director’s first commercial success. This time Saura explores how church and state-enforced societal, sexual, and psychological repression can lead “good” people to monstrous deeds. With traces of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and of Luis Bunuel, the film develops around a doctor who becomes obsessed with Elena, the wife of an old friend. The extent of his desire to possess Elena runs from claiming her to be the drummer he saw at a festival when he was young to transforming his assistant, a timid nurse called Ana, into Elena. In parallel with Spain’s sociopolitical structure the director questions the theme of “obsession” which we have been encountering lately in Pedro Almodovar’s films.