La Umbría

Overview

A mixture of ethnography, ravings and a vampire film, La Umbría tells the story of a family, dressed permanently in black and afflicted by tuberculosis, who live shut away in a mansion in a valley on Gran Canaria (the home of the painter Pepe Dámaso, who directs this film). An immersion in rural life and its people, imbued with extravagant visions midway between auteurist cinema and Hammer productions, ghosts of ancestors, imposing landscapes and impossible soirées.