Far from the Trees (1972) follows a haunting documentary journey through Spain’s most archaic and unsettling folk rituals, capturing scenes of animal sacrifice, religious penance, and communal suffering. With no narration or judgment, the film exposes the collision between superstition, tradition, and modernity under Franco’s Spain. This transgressive ethnographic documentary blends realism and surreal horror in Jacinto Esteva’s stark meditation on cruelty, faith, and cultural decay.
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 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 One: Can’t You Be Left Alone? (1983), 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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