So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight
★ 10 · 1994 · 60m · Documentary
In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.
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