“In the poetic Elisa My Love, Spanish director Carlos Saura (Cria, Cousin Angelica) turns again to an isolated world with few characters. After a separation of 20 years, Elisa (Geraldine Chaplin) visits her father, Luis (Fernando Rey), a 60-year-old writer living in seclusion in the Castilian countryside. As they exchange stories and experiences, memory and reality become surreally confused. Luis incorporates their conversations into his writing, and when he dies, Elisa continues the story her father began. The resulting film is a rich intertwining of fiction and reality, a haunting exploration of two people's loneliness.
“‘I accept that, as people say, everything you do is autobiographical and...I can say that Elisa, Vida Mia is among all my films the nearest one to my own thoughts.' (Carlos Saura)” Kathy Geritz