Cría cuervos
<div><b>Book tickets for two or more of our <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/bleak-week-cinema-of-despair">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a> films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b><i></i></div><div><br></div><div><div>Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, Carlos Saura's masterpiece takes its title from a sinister Spanish proverb: <i>"raise ravens and they’ll pluck out your eyes"</i>. A subtle yet unmistakable indictment of the family as a repressive force in Spanish society, <i>Cría cuervos</i> centres on an eight-year-old orphan (the spellbinding Ana Torrent from Erice's <i>The Spirit of the Beehive</i>) who believes herself to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian father (Héctor Alterio), a high-ranking military man whom she blames for the death of her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin).</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to <i>Pan's Labyrinth</i>, <i>Cría cuervos</i> is one of cinema’s most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child’s fantasy-imbued reality. Darkly unsettling, deeply touching and comic by turns, this landmark of Spanish cinema – premiered shortly after the dictator's death – exposes a stifling world in which talk of sex or the Civil War is still largely taboo.</div></div>DramaPT1H49M12A2026-06-24Ana Torrent
Conchita Pérez
Mayte Sánchez
Carlos Saura
Elías Querejeta
Cría cuervos"Cría cuervos"Showtimes
June 24, 5:35 pm
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