Only when the song was used in carlos sauras 1977 film cria cuervos raise crows, and the film went on be honoured at the cannes film festival jury grand prize and the berlin film festival jury special prize, did the song become internationally known and a hit. Cria cuervos raise ravens is a 1976 spanish drama film directed by carlos saura. Cria cuervo by carlos saura a movie to download, on vod and legal streaming. Calculated based on members top movie list and ratings. A devastating drama of profound political symbolism in which even the most deceptively trivial scenes have a meaning, and it is. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. Ana torrent the darkeyed beauty from the spirit of the beehive portrays the disturbed eightyearold ana, living in madrid with her two sisters and mourning. 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. Her mother geraldine chaplin, superb in a small role and father both died in. Eightyearold ana, stoic and quiet, approaches her fathers bedroom. Top movies of 1977 list, best movies 1977 page 5 by. Highly acclaimed, it received the special jury prize award at the 1976 cannes film festival.
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. With ana torrent, conchita perez, mayte sanchez, geraldine chaplin. Geraldine chaplin, monica randall, florinda chico, ana torrent, hector alterio, german cobos, mirta. Cuervos 1976 german cobos and monica randall in cria cuervos 1976. Ana torrent as ana is perhaps among one of the greatest child performances in all.
Cria cuervos is a beautiful movie about the sadness and longing for. The film is an allegorical drama about an eightyearold girl dealing with loss. 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. Geraldine chaplin, german cobos, hector alterio, mayte sanchez, monica randall.
Geraldine chaplin is awesome as is her spanish and the scenes between. 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. The acting by ana torrent is the best acting work by a child that i have ever seen. Monica randall and ana torrent in cria cuervos 1976 florinda chico and ana.
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