Disappearance Of Frederico Garcia Lorca's Film, Death In Granada

I watched a film about the disappearance of Federico Garcia Lorca called “Death in Granada”. This movie openly focuses on the death of the Spanish poet and playwright Garcia Lorca, who was unfortunately murdered by fascists. In the opening of the movie, it shows what the early life of Garcia Lorca was like and how society disliked his work because he wrote about topics that were out of people’s comfort zones at the time. It clearly depicted his works as we see a version of “Yerma” in which women are delivering an aesthetic long and angry speech of criticism. We see vividly see people’s discomfort in this expressionistic play in the movie as the journalist (also narrator portrayed by Esai Morales) Ricardo is at one of Lorca’s shows and the people in the crowd start to stand up in outrage and try boo the actors off the stage. However, it also shows Lorca’s head strong manner as he tells them to continue the show and also show people adoring his work by standing in ovation.
The main character, Ricardo is a sentimental Spaniard journalist whose family fled to Puerto Rico in order to avoid the Spanish Civil War. In this movie, Ricardo speaks very highly of Garcia Lorca and has idolized him from a young age. This movie depicts Ricardo and his best friend Jorge Aguirre worshiping
However, besides that small bit of glimmer of love, the movie is dark and hollow. This movie came to a disappointment for me though as I thought the plot of Ricardo himself overcastted the plot of Garcia Lorca, as he is only shown in flashbacks that were hard to follow. I wish I had learnt more of Garcia Lorca and his works in this film, but also the whole movie was generally well done with good performances and conclusion. I would not recommend this film if people are trying to find out more about the poet Federico Garcia