| Title | Cría cuervos . . . (1976) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 50 min. |
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| Country | Spain |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Drama | Foreign Language | Latino |
| Description | Carlos Saura’s exquisite Cría cuervos . . . heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: “Raise ravens and they’ll peck out your eyes”). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows. |
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| - | Interview | 21:05 | 01/01/2007 | ||||
| - | Interview | 07:51 | 01/01/2007 |