South from Granada

South from Granada (2003)

Al sur de Granada

He went looking for inspiration, but found more than he bargained for.

Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.

Date of release
2003-01-09
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director
Fernando Colomo

Casting

Interesting facts

South from Granada is a 2003 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Colomo which stars Matthew Goode as Gerald Brenan, a demobilized British soldier who in 1919 rents a house for a year in a village in Alpujarra, alongside Verónica Sánchez and Guillermo Toledo.

Production

The film was inspired by Gerald Brenan's biography The Interior Castle by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, who also collaborated in the screenplay.

Colomo was inspired to make the film after seeing the character of Brenan appear in the 1995 film Carrington, about Dora Carrington. In that film, Carrington was played by Emma Thompson, and Brenan, by Samuel West.

The film was produced by Fernando Colomo PC and Sogecine, with the participation of TeleMadrid, Antena 3, and Canal+.

Matthew Goode did not know who Brenan was upon taking the role, since Brenan is more familiar to the Spanish than the English. Goode did not speak Spanish, but read Brenan's biography and learned to imitate the phonetic sounds of Spanish.

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