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Blancanieves
Directed byPablo Berger
Produced byIbon Cormenzana
Jérôme Vidal
Pablo Berger
Written byPablo Berger
StarringMacarena García
Maribel Verdú
Music byAlfonso de Vilallonga
CinematographyKiko de la Rica
Edited byFernando Franco
Distributed byWanda (Spain)
Release date
  • 8 September 2012 (TIFF[1])
  • 28 September 2012 (Spain)
105 minutes[2]
CountrySpain
France
LanguageNo dialogue(Intertitles and songs in Spanish)
Box office$240,310 (US)[3]

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Blancanieves (known as Blancaneu in Catalan) is a 2012 Spanish black-and-whitesilentdrama 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.[4] Berger calls it a 'love letter to European silent cinema.'[5]

Blancanieves was Spain's 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category, but it did not make the shortlist.[6] 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.[7] 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.

Cast[edit]

  • Macarena García as Carmen Villalta / Blancanieves
  • Maribel Verdú as Encarna, the evil stepmother
  • Daniel Giménez Cacho as Antonio Villalta, the father
  • Ángela Molina as Doña Concha, the grandmother
  • Inma Cuesta as Carmen de Triana, the mother
  • Sofía Oria as Carmencita, little Carmen
  • Josep Maria Pou as Don Carlos, the impresario
  • Ramón Barea as Don Martín, Antonio's manager
  • Pere Ponce as Genaro Bilbao, Encarna's chauffeur
  • Emilio Gavira as Jesusín ('Grumpy')

Production[edit]

The inspiration for the film began when writer-director Pablo Berger saw a photograph of bullfighting dwarves in España Oculta (1989, ISBN8477820686),[5] 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:[5]

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'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.'

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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.'[5]

Reception[edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Blancanieves holds an approval rating of 94%, based on 106 reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10. It's consensus reads, 'Smartly written and beautiful to behold, Blancanieves uses its classic source material to offer a dark tale, delightfully told.'[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating 'Universal acclaim'.[9]

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.'[10]

Flight simulator x acceleration download. Chicago Sun-Timesfilm criticRoger 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.'[11] Later, he chose it to be shown at the 2013 Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.

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Accolades[edit]

List of awards and nominations
AwardCategoryNomineeResult
European Film Awards[12][13]Best FilmNominated
Best DirectorPablo BergerNominated
Best Costume DesignerPaco DelgadoWon
5th Gaudí AwardsBest Film in Catalan LanguageWon
Best DirectorPablo BergerNominated
Best ScreenplayPablo BergerNominated
Best Female LeadÁngela MolinaNominated
Maribel VerdúNominated
Best CinematographyKiko de la RicaNominated
Best Art DirectionAlain BainéeWon
Best Costume DesignPaco DelgadoWon
Best Film EditingFernando FrancoNominated
Best Make-Up and HairstylesFermín Galán and Sylvie ImbertNominated
Best Original ScoreAlfonso de VillalongaWon
Best Special/Visual EffectsReyes Abades and Ferrán PiquerNominated
27th Goya AwardsBest FilmWon
Best DirectorPablo BergerNominated
Best ActorDaniel Giménez CachoNominated
Best ActressMaribel VerdúWon
Best Supporting ActorJosep Maria PouNominated
Best Supporting ActressÁngela MolinaNominated
Best New ActorEmilio GaviraNominated
Best New ActressMacarena GarcíaWon
Best Original ScreenplayPablo BergerWon
Best CinematographyKiko de la RicaWon
Best EditingFernando FrancoNominated
Best Art DirectionAlain BainéeWon
Best Production SupervisionJosep AmorósNominated
Best Special EffectsReyes Abades and Ferrán PiquerNominated
Best Costume DesignPaco DelgadoWon
Best Makeup and HairstylesSylvie Imbert and Fermín GalánWon
Best Original ScoreAlfonso de VillalongaWon
Best Original SongNo Te Puedo Encontrar by Pablo Berger and Juan Gómez 'Chicuelo'Won
Latin ACE AwardsBest FilmWon
Best ActressMaribel VerdúWon
Best Supporting ActorDaniel Giménez CachoWon
26th Chicago Film Critics Association AwardsBest Original ScoreAlfonso de VillalongaNominated
14th Vancouver Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Foreign Language FilmNominated
39th César AwardsBest Foreign FilmNominated

See also[edit]

  • Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a 1995 documentary on the origin of European cinema

References[edit]

  1. ^Sanchez, Diana. 'Festival – Discovery: Blancanieves'. TIFF. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  2. ^'BLANCANIEVES (12A)'. British Board of Film Classification. 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  3. ^'Blancanieves (2012)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  4. ^Bonet Mojica, Lluís (28 September 2012). ''Blancanieves': Una 'Blancanieves' torera'. La Vanguardia. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  5. ^ abcdMatheou, Demetrios (11 July 2013). 'Pablo Berger: 'A movie's like a paella, you put all of your obsessions in there''. The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  6. ^Hopewell, John (27 September 2012). 'Spain sets 'Blancanieves' for Oscar race'. Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  7. ^'Official Selection Awards'. San Sebastián International Film Festival. 29 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  8. ^'Blancanieves (2013) - Rotten Tomatoes'. Rotten Tomatoes.com. Flixter. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  9. ^'Blancanieves reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  10. ^Bradshaw, Peter (11 July 2013). 'Blancanieves – review'. The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  11. ^Ebert, Roger (11 July 2013). 'Blancanieves'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  12. ^'Winners 2013'. European Film Awards. European Film Academy. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  13. ^'Nominations 2013'. European Film Awards. European Film Academy. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

External links[edit]

  • Blancanieves on IMDb
  • Blancanieves at Box Office Mojo
  • Blancanieves at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Blancanieves at Metacritic
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