Ana’s Reviews > The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts > Status Update

'the ensuing narrative will continually emphasize the contagion of that hidden legacy which comes not from what one actually experienced, but from the sounds and images, often false ones, that one has absorbed and left unquestioned.'

'Saura describes [Sweet Hours] as "the story of a man who realizes that the present is bad, and the future is the same, and so he decides to return to the time when he was fifteen years old, the happiest time of his life." Ironically, those happy days just happen to be the darkest of recent Spanish history: the Civil War and the immediate post-war period.' Everyone misses their childhood above everything

'Saura focuses on what may well be the essence of that strikingly anachronistic impulse in Spanish culture: the urge to recuperate within the weave of a familiar past the uncertainty of an unchartered present.'