Justina spent her life working as a servant in a huge country pile – then was left it when her boss died, yet isn’t allowed to sell. This odd, gorgeous film shows the place falling apart … and will fill you with uncomfortable questions
El Castillo (The Castle) is a feature-length documentary by the Argentinian film-maker Martín Benchimol that has been renamed by the BBC for its Storyville strand as Inheriting the Castle – possibly in an attempt to bring some clarity to proceedings.
Benchimol happened across the castle – which is not really a castle but a huge manor house, albeit one with a Disney-like turret, in the middle of the Argentinian Pampas – when he was making another film, The Dread. He assumed that the Indigenous woman who opened the door to him was a servant. In fact, she was the owner.
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