Cría Cuervos

Director: Carlos Saura

1976 / 105min / 35mm

Taking its title from the Spanish proverb “Raise ravens and they will pick your eyes out,” Saura’s lauded allegorical masterwork, set during the twilight of Spain’s Franco dictatorship, stars Ana Torrent (also seen in Spirit of the Beehive, in the same series) as a traumatized eight-year-old, second of three sisters living with a domineering aunt in Madrid following the death of their parents, who feels herself to be drifting freely between the worlds of the living and the dead and is increasingly convinced she has the ability to snuff out her adult persecutors’ lives. “Both an uncanny drama of family dysfunction and a historical parable of the end of Franco-ism… [Geraldine] Chaplin and Torrent are both outstanding.” —The Guardian