Synopsis
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
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Cast
- Maribel VerdúEncarna
- Macarena GarcíaCarmen
- Daniel Giménez CachoAntonio Villalta
- Ángela MolinaConcha
- Inma CuestaCarmen de Triana
- Sofía OriaCarmencita
- Ramón BareaDon Martín
- Emilio GaviraJesusín
- Josep Maria PouDon Carlos
- Sergio DoradoRafita
Recommendations
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New York Post
Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is the purest, boldest re-imagining of silent cinema yet. - 90
Village Voice
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. - 90
Wall Street Journal
The silents, as this film suggests, achieved aesthetic marvels before sound came along to set things back for a while. - 83
IndieWire
If nothing else, Blancanieves offers an excellent case for revisiting the early days of cinema -- and for recognizing how much has been lost in its absence. While "The Artist" recalled the silent film industry, Blancanieves solely pays tribute to the art. - 83
The A.V. Club
Berger also shows a dark wit and a faith in old-fashioned melodrama that puts Blancanieves more in the camp of Pedro Almodóvar than Guy Maddin’s golden-age pastiches. (And aside from being silent and a period piece, the movie has almost nothing in common with "The Artist.") - 80
Time Out
Expressively (Berger knows his grammar), a white communion dress is dipped in black dye as her custodial grandmother passes away and an evil castle beckons. - 75
NPR
Brimming over with sadism and the occasional touch of kink, Blancanieves piles on the pathology that's the birthright of any fairy tale worth its salt. Yet it's still a tale of lost innocence, and Berger keeps faith with a prototype revered by the Disneys and the Grimms alike: the resilient, enterprising girl who overcomes wave after wave of adversity. - 70
The New York Times
It communicates the delights of pastiche rather than the thrill of original creation, a secondhand movie love that is seductive but not entirely satisfying.
