Cría Cuervos (1976)

Original title

Cría cuervos

Directed by

Carlos Saura

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 276 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An eight-year-old girl copes with a troubled childhood in 1970s Spain. She notices the strange behavior of adults around her and retreats into memory and fantasy.

melancholicdreamlikecontemplativehauntingslow-burnintrospectivesubduedunsettling

What happens

Cría cuervos (Spanish: [ˈkɾi.a ˈkweɾβos], also written Cría cuervos…; lit. 'Raise crows') is a 1976 Spanish psychological drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura and produced by Elías Querejeta. The film is an allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with her troubled childhood. It stars Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent and co-stars Mónica Randall, Conchi Perez, Mayte Sanchez, Florinda Chico and Héctor Alterio. Highly acclaimed, it received the Grand Prix at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. It also was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Nowadays the movie is regarded as Carlos Saura's greatest masterpiece, one of the best movies of 1976, of the 1970s, of the 20th century and one of best and greatest classics of Spanish cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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