Al sur de Granada

Al sur de Granada (English title: South from Granada) is a 2003 film written and directed by Fernando Colomo, based on the 1957 book by Gerald Brenan. Matthew Goode stars as Brenan, a demobilized soldier who in 1919 rents a house for a year in a village in Alpujarra.

Colomo was inspired to make the film after seeing the character of Brenan appear in the 1995 film Carrington, about Dora Carrington.[1] In that film, Carrington was played by Emma Thompson, and Brenan, by Samuel West.

Matthew Goode did not know who Brenan was upon taking the role, since Brenan is more familiar to the Spanish than the English. Goode did not speak Spanish, but read Brenan's biography and learned to imitate the phonetic sounds of Spanish.[1]