Blancanieves
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Director Rupert Sanders Release date June 1, 2012 (India) Duration Country Spain
France | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Fantasy Film series The Huntsman film series Writer Pablo Berger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language No dialogue (Intertitles in Spanish) Release date 8 September 2012 (2012-09-08) (TIFF)
28 September 2012 (2012-09-28) (Spain) Story by Brothers Grimm, Evan Daugherty Screenplay Evan Daugherty, Hossein Amini, John Lee Hancock Cast Maribel Verdú (Encarna), Macarena García (Carmen), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Antonio Villalta), Ángela Molina (Concha), Inma Cuesta (Carmen de Triana), Sofía Oria (Carmencita)Similar movies Jamon Jamon , Matador , The Moon-Struck Matador , Fiesta , Georges Bizet's Carmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blancanieves (known as Blancaneu in Catalan) is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white silent drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. Based on the 1812 fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm, the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia. Berger calls it a "love letter to European silent cinema."
Contents
- Blancanieves y los siete enanitos cuento para ninos cuentos infantiles en espanol
- Cast
- Production
- Reception
- References
Blancanieves was Spain's 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category, but it did not make the shortlist. The film won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress "Silver Shell" Award for Macarena García at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also nominated in every category for which it was eligible at the 27th Goya Awards (except for Best Sound), winning ten Goya Awards, including the Best Film.
Blancanieves y los siete enanitos cuento para ninos cuentos infantiles en espanol
Cast
Production
The inspiration for the film began when writer-director Pablo Berger saw a photograph of bullfighting dwarves in España Oculta (1989, ISBN 8477820686), by Cristina García Rodero. By 2003, Berger had written Blancanieves and was working to raise funds for it soon after his film Torremolinos 73 was appearing at festivals; eight years later, in May 2011, he was working on the storyboards for Blancanieves and about to begin principal photography when news reached him that The Artist had been shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival:
"Nobody knew about The Artist until it appeared in Cannes. It was completely out of the blue. I was in my office in Madrid, doing the storyboards for my film, when a producer friend sent me a text message from the festival saying, 'I've just seen The Artist, it's black and white and silent and it's going to be huge.' I almost threw my phone against the wall. The high concept was gone."
According to Berger, Blancanieves is a "love letter to European silent cinema, ... especially French. Abel Gance for me is God. Movies like Napoleon, J'Accuse!, La Roue are extraordinary."
Reception
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it "extraordinarily enjoyable", awarding it five stars out of five and saying Pablo Berger "finds new life and heart in the old myth – certainly more than the recent Hollywood retreads – and daringly locates possibilities for both evil and romance in the ranks of the dwarves themselves"; the director "takes inspiration from Hitchcock, with hints of Rebecca and Psycho, Buñuel, Browning and Almodóvar, and conjures a fascinatingly ambiguous ending: melancholy, eerie and erotic. A film to treasure."
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, writing that the film "Is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s, if such details as the kinky sadomasochism of this film's evil stepmother could have been slipped past the censors." Later, he chose it to be shown at the 2013 Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.
References
Blancanieves WikipediaBlancanieves IMDb Blancanieves themoviedb.org