15th Spring Weekend

LAS DELICIAS DEL JARDIN

The Delights of the Garden
Ciné Lumière I

UK premiere

£16, conc. £14

by Fernando Colomo
with Fernando Colomo, Pablo Colomo, Carmen Machi, Antonio Resines, Luis Bermejo

Spain | 2025 | 94 min
In Spanish with English subtitles

Fermín, an abstract painter facing a personal and financial crisis, lives in his friend’s studio in Madrid. He hides a tremor in his hand and initially refuses to enter a competition. However, he changes his mind after receiving a foreclosure notice and with the unexpected arrival of his son. Together, they will try to overcome their differences to create a modern version of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Colomo, considered one of the masters of contemporary Spanish Comedy, wrote the script with his son Pablo, taking as a starting point their own father-son relationship, which they describe as a sort of “autofiction”. The superb and complex cinematography, which included the use of up to six cameras simulaneously, is by José Luis Alcaine.