Plot summary
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.
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Love may or may not overcome
Lovely and mysterious masterpiece
I saw this movie in the Filmoteca of my city, Zaragoza, in a cycle of contemporary Swiss cinema, without any ideas above it, and I discovered a movie astonishing, narrated of the most personal way. It's nothing conventional, in spite of it's a film located in mountains and with a family of farmers (no, it's not Heidi).
This hardest history includes very interesting transgressions like the incest of two brothers, where he, in addition, is mental delayed and to whom interest the feminine bodies more and more to him, so not known in those places for him.
In Spain I at least do not have certainty of which it was released, in the year of its accomplishment, 1985.
Finally, in press book which I saw of this film he put a thing that called the attention to me; "this film it could have been invented by Buñuel...or a Japanese". I agree.