So much has been said and written about this film that it is hard to find any new and clever descriptives. After seeing it the first time last month, it catapulted into the Top 10 of my Favorite Films list. By the next afternoon, it had catapulted into the Top 5; a week later into the Top 3. I just saw the film again tonight and it has now jumped to the #2 spot (behind Cria Cuervos, a 1976 film by the renowned Spanish director Carlos Saura which also deals with a child's perspective of tragedy and loss). THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE SINGLE DAY SINCE I SAW THIS FILM THAT I HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT -- THE MARK OF TRUE CINEMA.
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Cría Cuervos
(1976)
MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE FILM
21 December 1998
I first saw this film while I was a student studying in France. I was so taken by the film, with its extraordinary portrait of childhood, that I sat through it a second time the same day! It has been number one on my list of all-time favorite movies with no real rivals until this year's Cannes Prize-winning film "La Vita E Bella" which is in second place (also a fascinating study of life from a child's perspective). Although most Europeans are familiar with this film, I have never met one person in America who ever saw (or even heard of) the film. What a shame.
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