The Obscure Spring
Drama
Igor is a plumber; Pina serves coffee. It is winter and they both deeply desire each other, but they are not free. In trying to figure out how to realize their love, she decides to make a lion costume for her little son and he decides to buy a photocopying machine for his wife. Spring will come at last and with it the consummation of love, filling their lives with hope and sex.
VIBE
A quiet, simmering tension permeates this film. It's about the ache of unspoken desire and the desperate search for connection in mundane lives, all under a pallid, wintry sky that promises a warmer, more passionate spring.
melancholicyearningsensualhopefulslow-burnarthouse dramacharacter studyEuropean cinemaforbidden lovedesireinfidelityhope
springunfaithfulnesssingle motherstrangers to loversdead end jobhidden passionmarital infidelity
