He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. 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. The film is an allegorical drama about an eightyearold girl dealing with loss. Rent cria cuervos 1976 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. The acting by ana torrent is the best acting work by a child that i have ever seen.
Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after. Geraldine chaplin is awesome as is her spanish and the scenes between. Ana torrent as ana is perhaps among one of the greatest child performances in all. Eightyearold ana, stoic and quiet, approaches her fathers bedroom. Geraldine chaplin, german cobos, hector alterio, mayte sanchez, monica randall. With ana torrent, conchita perez, mayte sanchez, geraldine chaplin. 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 cuervo by carlos saura a movie to download, on vod and legal streaming. A devastating drama of profound political symbolism in which even the most deceptively trivial scenes have a meaning, and it is. Disturbed, eightyearold ana, living in madrid with her two sisters, mourns the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost. I built this clip up from fragments of the cria cuervos raising crows movie and parts of german tv show.
Highly acclaimed, it received the special jury prize award at the 1976 cannes film festival. Top movies of 1977 list, best movies 1977 page 5 by. Calculated based on members top movie list and ratings. Cria cuervos is a beautiful movie about the sadness and longing for. 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, monica randall, florinda chico, ana torrent, hector alterio, german cobos, mirta. Monica randall and ana torrent in cria cuervos 1976 florinda chico and ana. Cria cuervos raise ravens is a 1976 spanish drama film directed by carlos saura. 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.
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