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.
1953, València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
26 April 1988, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
25 June 1980, València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
1949, Bilbao, Spain
2 October 1970, Madrid, Spain
December 08, 2014
It's like watching a gorgeous tragi-comic opera written by Dickens and co-directed by Fellini and Almodovar.
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.
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
Blancanieves is a truly stunning motion picture, the kind of movie that makes you glad the movies exist.
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
Berger, like his rad forebear Luis Bunuel, marries poetry to film.
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.
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
The film is exquisitely shot and Macarena Garcia is achingly gorgeous as the fawn-eyed Carmen/Snow White.
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
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.
