CRÍA CUERVOS
(1976)
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Randwick Ritz, Sydney:
4:30 PM
Sunday 04 May
3:45 PM
Tuesday 06 May
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
1:15 PM
Friday 09 May
4:25 PM
Saturday 10 May
Rating: M
Duration: 107 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Mónica Randall, Héctor Alterio
Director: Carlos Saura
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4:30 PM
Sunday 04 May
3:45 PM
Tuesday 06 May
Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
1:15 PM
Friday 09 May
4:25 PM
Saturday 10 May
Rating: M
Duration: 107 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Mónica Randall, Héctor Alterio
Director: Carlos Saura
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2K RESTORATION – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Winner of the Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival, 1976.
“Still as moving and compelling as when it was made, Cría cuervos seems now not diminished but enhanced by its growing distance in time, benefiting from a retrospective perspective that, appropriately enough, is subtly explored within the film itself.” Paul Julian Smith
Carlos Saura became Spain’s most prominent filmmaker from his debut feature Los Golfos (1960). His breakthrough into international art house prominence came with Cría Cuervos in 1976 a compelling, enigmatic, Bergmanesque exploration of childhood fantasies. Shot in the summer of 1975, as Spanish dictator Francisco Franco lay dying, it premiered forty years after the civil war began. Saura could thus hardly have chosen a more momentous time for his meditation on history and memory.
Set almost entirely in a large, gloomy house walled up against the chaotic life of Madrid outside, Cría Cuervos tells the story of eight-year-old Ana, played by Ana Torrent, previously seen in Víctor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). The historical and social references in the film are inextricable from the psychic structures it explores.
Introduced by Geoff Gardner at Ritz Cinemas and by Will Cox at Lido Cinemas
Winner of the Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival, 1976.
“Still as moving and compelling as when it was made, Cría cuervos seems now not diminished but enhanced by its growing distance in time, benefiting from a retrospective perspective that, appropriately enough, is subtly explored within the film itself.” Paul Julian Smith
Carlos Saura became Spain’s most prominent filmmaker from his debut feature Los Golfos (1960). His breakthrough into international art house prominence came with Cría Cuervos in 1976 a compelling, enigmatic, Bergmanesque exploration of childhood fantasies. Shot in the summer of 1975, as Spanish dictator Francisco Franco lay dying, it premiered forty years after the civil war began. Saura could thus hardly have chosen a more momentous time for his meditation on history and memory.
Set almost entirely in a large, gloomy house walled up against the chaotic life of Madrid outside, Cría Cuervos tells the story of eight-year-old Ana, played by Ana Torrent, previously seen in Víctor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). The historical and social references in the film are inextricable from the psychic structures it explores.
Introduced by Geoff Gardner at Ritz Cinemas and by Will Cox at Lido Cinemas
THE RESTORATION
Source: DCP Mercury Films, Spain
The film was restored using an HD digital transfer. Improved English subtitles.
Director: Carlos Saura; Production Company: Elias Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas; Producer: Elias Querejeta; Script: Carlos Saura; Photography: Teo Escamilla; Editor: Pablo Gonzalez del Amo; Set Decoration: Rafael Palmero; Costume design: Maiki Marin; Music: Federico Mompou, ‘Porche Te Vas’ sung by Jeannette
Cast: Ana Torrent (Ana as a child), Conchita Pérez (Irene), Mayte Sanchez (Maite), Geraldine Chaplin (Maria/Ana), Monica Randall (Paulina), Florinda Chico (Rosa), Hector Alterio (Anselmo).
Spain | 1976 | 107 Mins | 2K DCP | Colour | Spanish with English subtitles | M
The film was restored using an HD digital transfer. Improved English subtitles.
Director: Carlos Saura; Production Company: Elias Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas; Producer: Elias Querejeta; Script: Carlos Saura; Photography: Teo Escamilla; Editor: Pablo Gonzalez del Amo; Set Decoration: Rafael Palmero; Costume design: Maiki Marin; Music: Federico Mompou, ‘Porche Te Vas’ sung by Jeannette
Cast: Ana Torrent (Ana as a child), Conchita Pérez (Irene), Mayte Sanchez (Maite), Geraldine Chaplin (Maria/Ana), Monica Randall (Paulina), Florinda Chico (Rosa), Hector Alterio (Anselmo).
Spain | 1976 | 107 Mins | 2K DCP | Colour | Spanish with English subtitles | M