Almost 20 years after the famous "El desencanto" (by Jaime Chávarri), Ricardo Franco, a director much more suitable to dive in the fascinating history of the Panero's family saga, shot this somehow sublime, beautiful, desperate documentary about poet Leopoldo Panero's sons. Juan Luis, the respected poet, living a easy life; Michi, a pariah, sick and destroyed, but intelligent and subtle; and Leopoldo María, committed in a sanatorium, and for many of us, the best Spanish poet alive. This film, modulated like a Ramón Gaya painting, bright, obscure and overwhelming is NECESSARY. Not only complete a great film, but it "leads" a memory to a right place. Its place
Review of Después de tantos años
