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Blancanieves
Set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia, the movie centers on a female bullfighter who never knows her birth mother and is hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend.
14 October 1964, Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
1944, Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
14 December 1964
12 September 1974, Huelva, Huelva, Andalucía, Spain
November 27, 2013
From Spain, here's a miracle of fairy tale repurposing: a version of the Brothers Grimm's "Snow White," set in Spanish bullfighting country in the late 1920s. Writer-director Pablo Berger's Blancanieves goes all the way with its concept, and then further.
November 27, 2013
This year's crowded field of Snow White movies has a winner, at least in terms of quality, in Pablo Berger's delightful Blancanieves.
December 08, 2014
The film is exquisitely shot and Macarena Garcia is achingly gorgeous as the fawn-eyed Carmen/Snow White.
November 27, 2013
While the story, shorn of its supernatural elements, is mired in abuse and tragedy, its effect is sensual and superficial.
December 08, 2014
A Spanish take on Snow White that picks up where The Artist left off and shows the full elegance of silent filmmaking.
June 13, 2015
Loving, willful anachronism... silent black-and-white fairytale Blancanieves-"a local film for a global market"-retells the familiar tale against a backdrop of bullfighting and flamenco in 1920s Seville, with intermittent roosters and dwarfs.
December 08, 2014
No film this year will look as swooningly beautiful, its deep-focus monochrome vividly rendered by the cinematographer Kiko de la Rica, and not many will sound as good, either, thanks to a score by Alfonso de Vilallong.
November 27, 2013
We're not in Disney's world. Berger knows his Grimm, and he suffuses his entrancing fairy tale with a moving sense of melancholy.
December 08, 2014
Blancanieves is a truly stunning motion picture, the kind of movie that makes you glad the movies exist.
December 08, 2014
It's like watching a gorgeous tragi-comic opera written by Dickens and co-directed by Fellini and Almodovar.
November 27, 2013
Berger, like his rad forebear Luis Bunuel, marries poetry to film.
