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Raise Ravens
Why this pick
Like Erice’s film, it filters Franco-era Spain through a young girl’s watchful imagination, finding political and familial unease in hushed rooms, fragments of memory, and everyday ritual.
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MOVIE1973 1h 37m ESP
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Six-year-old Ana is a shy girl who lives in the manor house in an isolated Spanish village on the Castile (historical region) with her parents Fernando and Teresa and her older sister, Isabel. The year is 1940, and the civil war has just ended with the Francoist victory over the Second Spanish Republic. Her aging father spends most of his time absorbed in tending to and writing about his beehives; her much younger mother is caught up in daydreams about a distant lover, to whom she writes letters. Ana's closest companion is Isabel, who loves her but cannot resist playing on her little sister's gullibility.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ana Torrent
Ana
Teresa Gimpera
Teresa