Winter Diary

Winter Diary (Spanish: Diario de invierno) is a 1988 Spanish film directed by Francisco Regueiro which stars Fernando Rey and Eusebio Poncela in a father-son relation alongside Francisco Algora, Terele Pávez, Rosario Flores, Lilí Murati, and Victoria Peña.

Plot

The plot tracks a policy agent seeking evidence for the criminal activities of his father, a former healer who practices euthanasia to people in need of relief.

Cast

• Fernando Rey as Padre
• Eusebio Poncela as León
• Francisco Algora as Culebrero
• Terele Pávez as Madre
• Rosario Flores as Muda
• Lilí Murati[es] as Abuela
• Victoria Peña as Gloria

Release

The film was presented in September 1988 at the 36th San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was theatrically released on 29 September 1988.

Reception

Octavi Martí of El País wrote that Winter Diary is "an extremely ambitious and risky film, which produces a strange sensation of lack of footage".

The review in Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be "an attractive film displaying a hermeticism that ends up becoming excessive", underpinning a game with "puzzling but suggestive results".

Accolades

See also

• List of Spanish films of 1988