After… Part One: Can’t You Be Left Alone? (1983) captures post-Franco Spain at a moment of volatile transition, as filmmakers Cecilia and José Juan Bartolomé document the disillusionment, protests, and political fractures that followed the promise of democracy. Through candid interviews and raw street footage, it exposes the contradictions between newfound freedom and lingering repression. This radical documentary blends reportage and social critique in a fearless portrait of a nation struggling to redefine itself after dictatorship.
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Notes
- Severin’s Blu-ray contains no extras. It is included in the “Exorcismo: Defying a Dictator & Raising Hell in Post-Franco Spain” box set with Far from the Trees (1972), The Bell from Hell (1973), Creation of the Damned (1974), The Devil’s Exorcist (1975), The People Who Own the Dark (1976), Battered Flesh (1978), Faces (1978), The Priest (1978), Triangle of Lust (1978), Sins of a Nympho (1979), Dimorfo (1980), That House in the Outskirts (1980), Bloody Sex (1981), Supernatural (1981), After… Part Two: Tied Up and Tied Up Well (1983), Morbus (1983), Poppers (1984) and Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada ‘S’ (2024). It contains a 168-page booklet.
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