Title: Blancanieves by: Pablo Berger Starring: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sergio Dorado Running time: 105 minutes, Rated PG-13, Available on Blu-Ray Special Features: The Making of Blancanives: Director’s Introduction; Blancanieves: Live Concert in Barcelona & Madrid A re-telling of the classic “Snow White” comes a tale of a matador who gets gored during a bullfight and becomes paralyzed. His wife goes into labor and dies in childbirth, the man is so overcome with grief that he refuses to see the baby. An opportunistic nurse takes advantage of his fragile state and gets him to marry her. The baby’s maternal grandmother names the baby Carmencita after her daughter, [ Read More ]
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- 9/7/2013
- by juliana
- ShockYa
The new film from Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger is a silent, black-and-white film so witty, riveting, and drop-dead gorgeous that moviegoers may forget to notice that they can't hear the dialogue. Astutely, Berger has chosen to wrap his experiment around a tale everyone knows: the perils of that sweet beauty, Snow White. Here, she is Carmen (Sofia Oria), born in 1920s Seville to a mother who dies in childbirth. After the death of her grandmother, Carmen is sent to live with the paralyzed bullfighter father (Daniel Giménez Cacho) she's never met, as well as his new wife and former nurse (Maribel Verdú)—the measure of a wicked stepmother. Eventually there will be dwarfs, but Berger's seven lugs are bullfighters, not miners, and one of them (Sergio Dorado)...
- 3/29/2013
- Village Voice
Each year, while I struggle to keep up with the foreign film submission charts and my sisyphean effort to find screenings or screeners of the 50 to 70+ films each year, Oscar's Foreign Film Nominating Committe cuts me off at the knees in my efforts. They always axe the bulk of the submissions and narrow the field to nine just as I've begun to make headway. Each year, I struggle to understand why nine? Ten (or more) would surely be easier to take for the finalists who did not find themselves Oscar nominated the following month. They could content themselves with a 50/50 chance, and consider it a toss of the coin misfortune rather than 'Nah, we don't like you so much!'
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- 12/21/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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