TERRENCE Malick isn’t the only filmmaker who takes his time between films (four features and one short since 1973).

Victor Erice, a 65-year-old Spainard, has directed just three features and two shorts in 32 years.

Now his first feature, a fragile beauty called “Spirit of the Beehive” (1973), is receiving a revival at Film Forum.

The setting is a remote, 1943 village where two tiny sisters watch a scratchy print of James Wales’ “Frankenstein,” with the younger child becoming obsessed with the Karloff monster and the need to discover why he kills a little girl.

The film is simply but gorgeously directed and photographed, and flawlessly acted.

Ana Torrent, as the troubled child, has a face capable of breaking hearts.

“Spirit” will be at the Forum (Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue) Friday through Feb. 2; filmforum.org

* Cine File is about to jet off to the Netherlands for his annual visit at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the thinking man’s alternative to overhyped Sundance.

With a pull of some 350,000 visitors and 2,500 professionals annually, Variety reports, the fest is the largest in Europe after Berlin.

This year’s sked includes 250 features and countless shorts.

Cine File’s column returns Feb. 11.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. He can be e-mailed at vam@nypost.com