Another representation of the dictatorship when it tried to make efforts in an openness that looked with desire at the development of the rest of Europe while Spain found itself locked in its own totalitarian discourse. Allegory of the oppression that militarism, religion and sexual repression have exerted and exert, in one of the darkest portraits of late Francoism. For Saura it is his most symbolic film, although the allegory was part of the most relevant titles of his filmography. Here is the director who treats humor and horror with the same tonality, represented in that mother that is the immovable España, the one of nostalgia for glorious times that will no longer exist (nor does it need to).