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Aunt Tula (La Tía Tula)

Miguel Picazo
Spain / 1964 / 107 mins. / Spanish with English subtitles

A widower finds himself falling for his sister-in-law. For his intelligently staged debut feature - a film about women making decisions of whom to marry at a time when other issues than love were to the fore - Picazo adapts Unamuno’s 1920 novel to the particular circumstances of modern Spain. A bank employee suffers a tremendous loss after his wife dies, calls on sister-in-law Tula to care for the children, then finds himself falling for her. Aunt Tula was cut by nearly five minutes, excising most references to matters such as virginity and the Civil War.

Born March 27, 1927 in Cazorla.His first feature was The Aunt Tula (1964), based on Unamuno's novel, was hailed as one of the best films of the New Spanish cinema, thanks to the detail that describes the provincial atmosphere and also by the interpretation of the protagonist Aurora Bautista. With the same quality shot Dark August (1967), although Picazo retracts into literary adaptations made ​​for television. Then goes The man who could love (1976), a biography of San Juan de Dios, and Clear reasons for desire (1977).