Directed by:
Carlos SauraScreenplay:
Carlos SauraCinematography:
Teo EscamillaComposer:
Giorgio MainieroCast:
Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey, Isabel Mestres, Joaquín Hinojosa, Norman Briski, Francisco Guijar, Ana TorrentPlots(1)
In Elisa, vida mía, Carlos Saura explores one of his recurring obsessions - interplay between past and present, memory and reality - through a spellbinding portrait of a complex father-daughter relationship. Saura’s longtime companion and collaborator Geraldine Chaplin stars in an intriguing double role, playing both a woman who reunites with her estranged, now ailing father (Fernando Rey, winner of the Cannes Best Actor award) and her own mother. As the old man works away on an autobiographical novel, father and daughter each embark on a cathartic reckoning with the past. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Geraldine Chaplin
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Fernando Rey
Spain
Best movies:
The French Connection (1971)
Viridiana (1961)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Isabel Mestres
Spain
Best movies:
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Elisa, My Life (1977)
Sweet Hours (1982)
Joaquín Hinojosa
Spain
Best movies:
Elisa, My Life (1977)
Salvador (2006)
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
Norman Briski
Argentina
Best movies:
La peli (2007)
Elisa, My Life (1977)
Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Francisco Guijar
Best movies:
Elisa, My Life (1977)
Ana Torrent
Spain
Best movies:
Cria! (1976)
Elisa, My Life (1977)
Cows (1992)