Patrick Marnham

There was good art under Franco

A review of Jeremy Treglown’s Franco’s ‘Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936’. A lot of the great art and film made under Franco’s regime has been unfairly tainted by association

Silvia Pinal in Buñuel’s Viridiana

  • Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936

    Jeremy Treglown

    Chatto and Windus, pp. 320

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