From Pink to Yellow

(Del Rosa…al Amarillo)

Manuel Summers / Spain / 1963 / 90 min

Spanish with English subtitles

Two love stories are told in parallel: in the first, demythologising the love of innocents, a young boy falls for an older girl and becomes increasingly obsessed with winning her affections, while she toys with his. In the second, set in a nursing home for the poor, Valentin and Josefa find ways to subvert the rules of the institution and exchange mash notes. Summers’ auspicious directorial debut was one of the most acclaimed releases of its year and a seminal film in the Nuevo Cine Español movement.

About the Director
Manuel Summers was born in Seville, 1935. Prolific comedian, worked in several publications such as Hermano Lobo, La Cordoníz, etc. The success of his first film, From pink to yellow (1963) leads him to make The girl in black (1964), The Game of Goose (1965) and his best film, Broken Toys (1966), that closes the first part of his work, since its failure leads to work in popular movies (My first sin, Let your hair down 1976 and 1988).
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