{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox film | image = Outside the Walls poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Miguel Picazo]] | screenplay = Miguel Picazo | native_name = {{Infobox name module|es|Extramuros|nolink=yes}} | based_on = {{Based on|''Extramuros''|[[Jesús Fernández Santos]]}} | country = Spain | starring = {{ubl|[[Carmen Maura]]|[[Mercedes Sampietro]]|[[Aurora Bautista]]|[[Assumpta Serna]]|[[Antonio Ferrandis]]}} | language = Spanish | released = {{Film date|1985|09||[[San Sebastián International Film Festival|Zinemaldia]]|1985|09|27|Spain|df=yes}} | distributor = Incine | studio = {{ubl|Blau Films|Miguel Picazo PC}} | music = [[José Nieto (composer)|José Nieto]] | cinematography = [[Teo Escamilla]] }} '''''Outside the Walls''''' ({{langx|es|'''Extramuros'''|links=no}}) is a 1985 Spanish drama film directed by [[Miguel Picazo]] based on the novel by [[Jesús Fernández Santos]] which stars [[Carmen Maura]] and [[Mercedes Sampietro]].
== Plot == Set during the reign of [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5tfi_72BcDEC|page=38|first=Augusto M.|last=Torres|publisher=Huerga & Fierro Editores|year=2004|location=Madrid|isbn=84-8374-480-5|title=Directores españoles malditos}}</ref> the plot follows two [[nun]]s bonded by [[Lesbian]] affection (sor Ana and sor Ángela). With help from Ana, Ángela decides to fake [[stigmata]] to save her convent from economic hardship. These developments raise the prioress' suspicions and eventually the [[Spanish Inquisition|Holy Office]] intervenes.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/collect/premsaForanaMallorca/import/Perlas_y_Cuevas/1986/Perlas_y_Cuevas_1986_mes11_n0663.pdf|title="Extramuros" y "Matador" en el Cine Club Perlas|page=21|journal=Perlas y Cuevas|date=15 November 1986}}</ref><ref name="10min">{{Cite web|url=https://www.diezminutos.es/teleprograma/programacion-tv/a29232900/extramuros-pelicula-carmen-maura-mercedes-sampietro-manuel-alexandre/|website=[[Diez Minutos]]|title='Extramuros', de Miguel Picazo, en 'Historia de nuestro cine'|date=27 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/junio_18/25062018_01.htm|date=25 June 2018|journal=Rinconete|title=El cine de Miguel Picazo (5). Extramuros (1985)|first=Rafael|last=Nieto Jiménez|publisher=[[Centro Virtual Cervantes]]}}</ref>
== Cast == {{Cast listing| * [[Carmen Maura]] as sor Ana<ref>{{Cite book|page=329|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRG4w42PlTYC|publisher=Ediciones Encuentro|location=Madrid|title=La Pasión de Cristo en el cine|first=Monserrat|last=Claveras|year= 2011| isbn=9788499205687 |orig-year=2008}}</ref> * [[Mercedes Sampietro]] as sor Ángela{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * [[Aurora Bautista]] as priora{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * [[Assumpta Serna]] as huésped{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * [[Antonio Ferrandis]] as médico{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * [[Manuel Alexandre]] as sacerdote{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * [[Conrado San Martín]] as duque{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} * {{ill|Marta Fernández Muro|es|lt=Marta Fernández}} as doncella{{Sfn|Claveras|2011|p=329}} }}
== Production == The film was produced by Blau Films and Miguel Picazo PC, and it had the participation of [[Televisión Española|TVE]].<ref name="productores" /> Shooting locations included the convent of San Pedro de Dueñas (province of Segovia), [[Talamanca de Jarama]], [[Peñaranda de Duero]], [[Ávila]], and [[Alcalá de Henares]].<ref>{{Cite news|first=Carlos|last=García Santa Cecilia|date=14 March 1985|title=Miguel Picazo vuelve al cine con 'Extramuros', la historia de un milagro fingido por dos religiosas|newspaper=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1985/03/14/cultura/479602815_850215.html}}</ref>
== Release == The film screened at the 33rd [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]] in September 1985.<ref name="afdezsantos" /> Distributed by Incine,<ref name="productores">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UC7JxXIfS48C|page=108|publisher=Cátedra|year=2008|title=Productores en el cine español. Estado, dependencias y mercado|first1=Esteve|last1=Riambau|first2=Casimiro|last2=Torreiro|isbn=9788437624624 }}</ref> the film was released theatrically at Madrid's [[Gran Vía 35, Madrid|Palacio de la Música]] on 27 September 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/alece/registro_pelicula/?id=542|via=[[Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes]]|access-date=21 May 2023|title= Extramuros · España 1985|website=Adaptaciones de la literatura española en el cine español. Referencias y bibliografía}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Imagen fílmica del lesbianismo a través de los personajes protagonistas en el cine español|page=368|url=https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/12289/1/T31312.pdf|first=Irene|last=Pelayo García|year=2011|location=Madrid|publisher=[[Complutense University of Madrid|Universidad Complutense de Madrid]]|isbn=978-84-694-2459-9}}</ref> It had 156,158 admissions.{{Sfn|Riambau|Torreiro|2008|p=108}}
== Reception == Clifford Terry of ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' considered that Picazo managed to create a "bizarre, uneven but strangely compelling" film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-24-9201070871-story.html|website=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=24 January 1992|title=1985 Spanish film is uneven but strangely compelling|first=Clifford|last=Terry}}</ref>
[[Ángel Fernández-Santos]] of ''[[El País]]'' assessed that upon translation into images of the literary story the film "suffers from a multitude of defects that gradually become visible", and by the time the film ends, the latter "is difficult to sustain" "due to the accumulation [of those deffects].<ref name="afdezsantos">{{Cite news|website=[[El País]]|first=Ángel|last=Fernández-Santos|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1985/09/26/cultura/496533606_850215.html?rel=listapoyo|author-link=Ángel Fernández-Santos|title=Películas para el olvido|date=26 September 1985}}</ref>
== See also == * [[List of Spanish films of 1985]]
== References == {{reflist}}
[[Category:Films set in the 16th century]] [[Category:1985 Spanish films]] [[Category:1985 Spanish-language films]] [[Category:Films shot in the Province of Segovia]] [[Category:Films shot in the Province of Ávila]] [[Category:Films shot in Alcalá de Henares]] [[Category:Films shot in the Community of Madrid]] [[Category:1985 LGBTQ-related films]] [[Category:Spanish LGBTQ-related films]] [[Category:Films about Catholic nuns]] [[Category:Films directed by Miguel Picazo]] [[Category:Lesbian-related films]] [[Category:Films set in convents]] [[Category:Films scored by José Nieto]] [[Category:LGBTQ and Catholicism]]