José Luis Cuerda, Butterfly (1999)

“Eyes on Spain” Film Screening Series

February 3, 2016 6:30 PM –
February 3, 2016 8:30 PM
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Still from the film “Butterfly” (1999) by José Luis Cuerda
Still from the film “Butterfly” (1999) by José Luis Cuerda
As the fifth event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen the film drama “Butterfly” (La lengua de las mariposas, 1999) by José Luis Cuerda. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.
Events
film screening
Eyes on Spain. Screening the Civil War Memories

Embajada de España en Hungría Instituto Cervantes Budapest

The Mexican Suitcase
The Mexican Suitcase – Opening Event Trisha Ziff, The Mexican Suitcase (2011) Carolina Astudillo, The Great Flight (2014) The Visual Politics of Gesture Guernica on the Screen José Luis Cuerda, Butterfly (1999) Péter Forgács, El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005) Carlos Saura, ¡Ay Carmela! (1990) – The Songs of the Spanish Civil War Joris Ivens, Spanish Earth (1937) and the Rita Góbi Dance Company
As the fifth event of the film series “Eyes on Spain: Screening the Civil War Memories”, accompanying the “Mexican Suitcase” exhibition, we screen the film drama “Butterfly” (La lengua de las mariposas, 1999) by José Luis Cuerda. The “Eyes on Spain” film screening series is a cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Budapest and the Cervantes Institute.

Butterfly (La lengua de las mariposas, 1999) 
Drama, 96’, directed by José Luis Cuerda
Spanish with English subtitles

Veteran director Jose Luis Cuerda delivered this sensitive portrait of a child coming of age during a tense political situation just before the Spanish Civil War. On his first day of school, frail eight-year-old Moncho (Manuel Lozano) is so terrified by the imposing figure of his teacher Don Gregorio (Fernando Fernan Gomez) that he flees into the nearby woods. In spite of his authoritarian appearance, the schoolmaster proves to be a kind, free-thinking Republican who teaches Moncho the virtues of being good. The boy is soon spending much of his time with the elderly Gregorio in the Galician countryside, admiring such wonders of nature as the tongue of a butterfly. However, when the Fascists roll into town, the boy's life changes forever. La Lengua de las Mariposas was screened at the 1999 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Watch the trailer here.

Supported by the Spanish Embassy in Budapest.

Admission free. Seating is first-come first-served basis.
The film is screened in Spanish with English subtitles.

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