El Desencanto and El silencio de otros coming to Regent Square Theater

The Disenchantment / El Desencanto

97 min / with Felicidad Blanc, Juan Luis Panero, Leopoldo María Panero, Michi Panero / Documentary Directed by Jaime Chávarri / Spain 1976 / In Spanish with subtitles

Sunday June 16 6pm and Wednesday June 19th 8pm  
Regent Square Theater
1035 South Braddock Ave, Regent Square

Directed by Jaime Chávarri, El Desencanto is the fragmented story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented literary family whose eccentricities and taboo-smashing exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain the year after Francisco Franco died. The film is a national classic, valued and remembered both for the role it played in the country's transition to democracy and for the Paneros' singular strangeness.

For the Sunday June 16th 6pm screening Will Zavala, curator of Doc Salon
will introduce the film and discuss the film (offsite) afterwards.

For the Wednesday June 19th 8pm screening we are excited to present Candace Skibba, who will introduce the film and moderate a discussion afterwards. An Associate Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies within the Department of Modern Languages of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. With a PhD in Contemporary Spanish Literature, her principal area of expertise is in the field of twentieth-century Peninsular studies, particularly Post-Franco literature and culture.

We gratefully thank Aaron Shulman (author of The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War) for helping us to present this rare documentary.

Tickets can be purchased ahead of time at: 

The Silence of Others / El silencio de otros

Friday June 7 to Thursday June 20

The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows victims and survivors as they organize the groundbreaking "Argentine Lawsuit" and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, in a country still divided after four decades of democracy.

96 min / Not Rated / Documentary Directed by Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo / USA | Spain | Canada | France 2018

In Spanish with subtitles

https://thesilenceofothers.com/

http://cinema.pfpca.org/films/the-silence-of-others

The Disenchanted / El Desencanto

Sunday June 16 and Wednesday June 19th.

Directed by Jaime Chávarri (who was influenced by Grey Gardens), El Desencanto is the fragmented story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented literary family whose eccentricities and taboo-smashing exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain the year after Francisco Franco died. The film is a national classic, valued and remembered both for the role it played in the country's transition to democracy and for the Paneros' singular strangeness.

97 min / Not Rated / Featuring Felicidad Blanc, Juan Luis Panero, Leopoldo María Panero, Michi Panero / Documentary Directed by Jaime Chávarri / Spain 1976

In Spanish with subtitles

We gratefully thank Aaron Shulman (author of The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War) for helping us to present this rare documentary.

Review of Aaron Shulman's book in the NYTimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/books/review/aaron-schulman-age-of-disenchantments.html

Article by Aaron Shulman on the film:

https://believermag.com/el-desencanto/

Mention of El Desencanto in the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/movies/nyc-this-weekend-film-series.html