Beauty of the Father

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At the start of his touching and sexy Beauty of the Father, Nilo Cruz brings on the late Spanish poet-playwright Federico Garcia Lorca as a character. There's method to his fancy; Cruz wants it understood the he's about to offer a generous helping of the dramatic poetry he likes composing.

Lorca -- dressed in white, holding a cigarette at a dapper angle, and behaving like an Andalusian version of the poetic American playwright Tennessee Williams -- says with no preliminary ado, "Five o'clock in the afternoon. The hours that bullfighters get killed. There was no death today at five o'clock in the afternoon. No, no death recorded. Perhaps there was a wound. But there is always a wound in [...]