| Fecha | Área | Bruto |
|---|---|---|
| 29 February 2000 | Spain | ESP 96,752,812 |
| Fecha | Área | Bruto |
|---|---|---|
| 29 February 2000 | Spain | ESP 96,752,812 |
Ana (Ana Torrent), a sad-eyed little girl of about eight years old, unable to sleep, overhears a conversation as she walks down the stairs to get a glass of water. The voices, coming from her father Anslemo's (Hector Alterio), room, are exchanging expressions of mutual love.
One of the risks of recommending this amazing film to your friends is that you might look totally wacky and/or slightly creepy for them. However, if they're good friends they will just think you've got simply the best taste on Earth and, you care about the good films.
A criminally overlooked classic of Spanish cinema, You should see this movie no matter what, i'm not gonna say much The other reviewers got it right.
The very female-centered "Cría cuervos" or "Raise Ravens" is a Spanish live action film from 1976, so only slightly over five years until this one has its 50th anniversary. I thought it looked a lot newer.
Like Saura's recently-viewed THE HUNT (1966), this is considered among the greatest Spanish films ever – and deservedly so. Incidentally, it also assumes a child's viewpoint throughout – an aspect shared with yet another movie that ranks very highly on such national polls, i.
A powerful film on childhood, loss, sadness, being a girl, family issues... more focused in feelings than in events.
This film is such a splendid experience that it's difficult to really describe objectively why. The plot, the characters are revealed at a perfect tempo, keeping the audience engrossed and anticipating what's next.
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene (Conchota Pérez), Ana (Ana Torrent) and Maite (Maite Sánchez) are raised by their austere aunt Paulina (Mônica Randall) together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother (Geraldine Chaplin) and their military father Anselmo (Héctor Alterio). Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
With this and "Spirit of the Beehive", Ana Torrent is the poster child for childhood in cinema. Not as compelling as "...
