Spanish cinema after franco season, and its an exquisitely made and deeply affecting f. Its as if the films pace and structure are wholly steered by. When a brother and sister inherit their wealthy fathers cuervos soccer team, their sibling rivalry explodes as they struggle for control. Premiering with its full first season on august 7, 2015, it is the first spanishlanguage netflix original series. Cria cuervos trama cast recensione scheda del film di carlos saura con mirta miller, hector alterio, geraldine chaplin, florinda chico, german cobos. Stills must not be reproduced, copied or downloaded in any way. In cria cuervos aka raise ravens, 1975, which is being rereleased to coincide with a bfi season on spanish cinema since franco, shes a sensitive eightyearold orphan, also called ana, but the time and place are madrid as the caudillo is on his last legs. Like the earlier the spirit of the beehive also starring ana torrent, cria cuervos is a story told from a childs perspective.
The film is an allegorical drama about an eightyearold girl dealing with loss. Raise ravens, rear ravens, the secret of anna, cria raise ravens and theyll peck out your eyes in madrid, the orphan sisters irene, ana and maite are raised by their austere aunt paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father anselmo. Cria cuervos regia di carlos saura con geraldine chaplin, monica randall, conchita perez, filmscoop. Highly acclaimed, it received the special jury prize award at the 1976 cannes film festival. Recensione su cria cuervos 1975 di peppe comune filmtv. This 1975 film is the centrepiece of the bfis good morning freedom. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after. The chiaroscuro lighting reveals the psychological division of this protagonist, because while she is an innocent child born under franco, ana also wants to destroy the patriarchal system. In cria cuervos aka raise ravens, 1975, which is being rereleased to coincide with a bfi season on spanish cinema since franco, shes a. Focusing on eightyearold ana over the course of a summer after the death of her father, a highranking officer, the film is an. Scene from cria cuervos carlos saura with ana torrent.
Con ana torrent, conchita perez, geraldine chaplin, maite sanchez almendros, monica randall. Saura could thus hardly have chosen a more momentous time for his meditation on history and memory. Shot in the summer of 1975 as general franco lay dying, sauras masterpiece takes its title from a sinister spanish proverb. Ana, a small, darkly serious girl of about 10, stands at the top of. When family tragedy strikes, playboy chava and his workaholic. The story centers on the football club cuervos fc, based in the fictional city of nuevo toledo, mexico, and the power struggle that follows the. Cria cuervos was shot in the summer of 1975, as spanish leader francisco franco lay dying, and premiered in madrids conde duque theatre, on january 26, 1976. Cria cuervos original title pg 1h 45min drama 18 may 1977 usa in the twilight of francisco franco s dictatorship, an eightyearold orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Highly acclaimed, it received the cannes film festival special jury prize award. Disturbed, eightyearold ana, living in madrid with her two sisters, mourns the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost. An interesting andi thinkimportant aspect of anas mistaking baking soda for poison is that it absolves her of actually murdering anyone. In the twilight of francisco francos dictatorship, an eightyearold orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Cria cuervos has been much admired for its portrayal of the world of childhood, and nowhere is it more successful in this respect than in its evocation of the fluidity of the childs sense of the real and the imaginary, thanks to which death is largely devoid of the terrors which it inspires in adults. Cria cuervos inverness film fans infifa meet fortnightly at eden court cinema for screenings and post.