
In Madrid, orphan sisters Irene, Ana, and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina and their mute, crippled grandmother after the deaths of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after watching her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.... (Full plot summary below)
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In Madrid, orphan sisters Irene, Ana, and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina and their mute, crippled grandmother after the deaths of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after watching her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
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| FilmjourneyDoug CummingsThe film's vaguely uncanny and disquieting tone is due to several factors, including its emphasis on death, loss, and decay...In many ways, the film is a lament and warning for Spain's future. |
| Electric SheepVirginie SélavyThe film fluidly moves between reality and fantasy, past and present, never delineating them clearly, suggesting they all have the same texture in Ana's mind and are part of the same continuum. |
| Total FilmTom DawsonA richly shot, impressively acted film containing a powerful, bleak vision of both childhood and a repressive adult world. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt unfolds like a kind of morbid reverie, reverberating with strange frissons about what one generation passes to the next, and how even rebellion is a kind of heirloom. |
| GuardianPhilip FrenchThe title refers to the old saying: "Raise ravens and they'll peck your eyes out." |
| New StatesmanRyan GilbeyHer [Torrent] expression in Cría cuervos is blank and beautiful, her gaze unfaltering. It's no exaggeration to say that there would be no movie without her: so much of the characterisation is embedded in her stillness. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonAs the child who believes she has power over death after witnessing the demise of her father, Ana Torrent superbly conveys that mix of terror and innocence that is unique to childhood. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySet in 1974, the last year of Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Carlos Saura's melodrama draws intriguing analogies between a girl haunted by hallucinations and the broader political context. |
| User ReviewNadia VUn film sur le monde de l'enfance, son innocence, ses croyances ... Très beau ! Et une belle musique ... |
| User ReviewGene FDark and witty. This was a great movie. The only thing I would have done differently was shave off a few shots at the end. |