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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Inheriting the Castle review – the fairytale gift that became a nightmare

Poisoned legacy? … Alexia and Justina live and work in the castle.
Poisoned legacy? … Alexia and Justina live and work in the castle. Photograph: BBC/Mayra Bottero/Gema Films, Sister Productions

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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