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Cria Cuervos...: The Criterion Collection (1976)
Rating:
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent
Director: Carlos Saura
Category: Drama, Foreign, Suspense / Thriller
Studio: Criterion
Subtitles:
English
Length:
109 mins

 
 

 

Carlos Saura's exquisite Cria 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 (played by 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.