The first Spanish film I remember seeing was “The Spirit of the Beehive” by Victor Erice.

Catching that 1973 gem at a college film society was an eye opening experience, as it was a movie about a child transformed by watching the ancient Universal classic “Frankenstein” in post Civil War Spain.

“Close Your Eyes” is about movies and memory and about a filmmaker) actor who disappeared decades before?

A fitting curtain call for Erice, who turns 84 June 30? We’ll see.

This is an end of August release from Film Movement.