Blancanieves (2013)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Memorable, crazy movie

Just perfect...

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This deserves no more than 5 minutes to understand what it's worth. What the film wants from you.Btw, this is no silent, neither sound, this is no film at all actually. Just a poor trailer-like film of a director who doesn't know that an actor may act and not just be a poor fashion model in a "beautiful" frame. Just see the three repeated (or more?) shots on the two women (mother and daughter in the arena) : poor playing, giggling. Now, the use of black and white ??? I let you guess the motivations of the director. And why no dialogs ??? Guess too... This guy is just reluctant to reality which is the blood of cinema. Yes, even a fairytale should be real, and dreams and nightmares are full of (The night of the hunter, for ex.) but there's too overblown intentions here to make any real things appear. Just plain propaganda of feelings. Just photographs following one another. If this director'd have been honest (or just a director), he'd renounce to movement too (in fact he did in the worst way possible) and would have just proposed a slide show.The story telling suffers the same hammering (the fall of the hat with a slow motion is so heavy that we can't afterward care for the twist of fate, the fact that it was not for his death but for hers... ) Anyway, actors having not been able to play this correctly, I decided enough was enough and quit my seat. (My God, has this guy seen more than 5 silent films in his life ??? Is Spain and its cinema in such a profund crisis ?)

Obviously as you can see, the movie itself has drawn far better votes than mine in general. And I guess people really dug the style the movie used to tell an "older" story. At least one story that is very well known. And it is not that I'm fed up with watching another Snow White movie (after the one with Julia Roberts and the one with Charlize Theron), it's just that this one did not hit a note with me.And I'm pretty sure there were others at the festival we watched this who felt the same way. We're in the minority of that special group keep that in mind, but even trying to be as objective as possible, you (in this case me) can only be subjective at the end. And this black and white (silent) movie, might look good and have some nice comedic moments, but isn't a revelation whatsoever

The best film I've seen in a long while. A modern silent film, it's a true visual masterpiece. Words definitely would have just gotten in the way. Based on the Snow White fairy tale (though it's at its best when it's not following that story closely), the film follows a young girl, Carmen, after her mother dies in childbirth and her father (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) is made a paraplegic in a bullfight. As a child (played by the lovely Sofia Oria), she lives with her grandmother. When she dies, though, Carmen goes to live with her father and his new wife (Maribel Verdu, one of the most photogenic people on Earth). Of course, her stepmother is wicked. Her wheelchair-bound father is restricted to his bedroom. She's forbidden to see her father, but eventually she sneaks up to his room, where he teachers her the art of bullfighting. When Carmen grows up (now played by Macarena Garcia), her stepmother tries to dispatch her. She's saved by six bullfighting dwarfs, who, teaming up with the girl in their shows, bill themselves as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the tale is known to them). This film isn't much about the story, although it is actually quite involving. The images are astounding. It's the kind of film where you could take any frame and hang it on your wall. The three main actresses are stunning. Verdu in particular - man, can that woman wear some clothes! The actresses playing Carmen both have these amazing eyes. I was swept along and absolutely amazed.

I saw this movie as a sneak preview and had an open mind as to what to expect. I was disappointed!Blancanieves is compared in some reviews to "the Artist". Beware, it's nothing like it. It's humorless, grim (or is it Grimm in this case) and black (and white, but only in it's colors). Some say it's artistic. My criticism is that it's pretended. It's not that the movie never touches you, but it's hard to stay focused on this movie. The way one scene melts into another was condemned in movies like Highlander and is arty now, because it's silent and black and white? The only part that really was good, was the end.When you want to come out of the movie theater depressed, this is the movie for you.