Maribel Verdú

Macarena García

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Ángela Molina

Inma Cuesta

Sofía Oria

Ramón Barea

Josep Maria Pou

Pere Ponce

Itziar Castro

Ignacio Mateos

Carmen Belloch

Teresa Soria Ruano

Carmen Segarra

Pep Ferrer

Manel Castillejos

Emilio Gavira

Jinson Añazco

Sergio Dorado

Alberto Martínez

Michal Lagosz

Jimmy Muñoz

Victoria Sáez

Francesc Pagès

Oriol Vila

Carlos Lasarte

Pilar Gómez

Pablo Berger

Alain Baineé

Fernando Franco

Paco Delgado

Ibon Cormenzana

Ignasi Estapé

Julio Piedra

Felipe Aragó

Sylvie Imbert

Jérôme Vidal

Martin Metz

Bastien Sirodot

Jeremy Burdek

Gilles Waterkeyn

Michel Reilhac

Jon Bárcena

Nadia Khamlichi

Iwona Sellers

Ángel Durández

Julián García Rubí

Fernando Baldellou

Rémi Burah

Adrian Politowski

Enrique Rodríguez

Gareth Llewellyn

Joxean Goya

Rocío Soriano

Marc Henry de Frahan

Ferrán Piquer

Sandra Picher

John de Clerck

Patrick Lemmens

Andrea Calvé

Rafael Galdó

Jonathan Cheetham

Edgar Molinos

Kiko de la Rica

Alfonso Vilallonga

Ana Infante

Cristian Escribano

José Germán Martín

Paul Antonio Muñoz Flores

Carlos Gras

Jon Espel

Belén López

Ana López

Reyes Abades

César Abades

Ángel Alonso

Rosa Estévez

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Blancanieves

Arcadia Motion Pictures

Noodles Production

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ARTE France Cinéma

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matador (bullfighter)

silent film

bull fight

This is a highly creative version of Snow White that looks and wounds exactly like an old silent movie. It was so well done that I was invested in the characters by the end and therefore somewhat disappointed by the finale.

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This is a cracking silent film that sees the traditional "Snow White" story presented in monochrome and transferred to the arena of the toreador. Our heroine is "Carmen" (Macarena García) whose father was a renowned bullfighter "Villalta" (Daniel Gimênez Cacho) but on the day of her birth he suffers a double tragedy that leads him ultimately to marry his rather malevolent nurse "Encarna" (Maribel Verdú). Fortunately for her, "Carmen" went to live with her loving grandmother but upon her death she had to return to her ailing father and his rather brutal second wife. Her new life proves unbearable, so she flees to the forest where she encounters seven diminutive matadors who take her in, name her "Blancanieves" and, seeing that she has inherited some of her father's skill in the bull ring, anticipate making a fortune with her - sure she will be a great crowd-pleaser. The artistry involved here is stunning with the whole production design giving this adaptation a lovely richness as the sparing inter-titles keep us informed on just what is going on. Verdú is really quite menacing, in a sort of Dame Kristen Scott Thomas manner with a "sweet" smile that could strip the hide from you. The girl's mischievous yet kind forest friends add a delightful, and sometimes quite comedic, element of hope and fun to the proceedings and I actually thought, for a while at least, that there was a fair chance that Pablo Berger would amend the ending! The accompaniment has a lovely Spanish flair to it. Sometimes gentle, seductive, sometimes rousing and almost stormy, and it helps sustain the mood of this dark interpretation that is anything but Disney. If you ever get a chance to watch in a cinema, then you ought to take it - this is a celebration of Spanish culture that looks marvellous up on a big screen.

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Blancanieves( 2012)

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Written by badelf on Tue Oct 11 2022

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