Cria Cuervos is a film is about a young girl and her two sisters living in spain who have to deal with the loss of their mother and father. Anna (the main character), after the death of her mother, finds her father in a separate room of the house with a mistress. She is not quite sure of the meaning of this, but has always known her father to be up to no good and believes that all the pain and suffering in the family, is a result of her fathers actions. She then thinks that after seeing her father die of heart failure while with his lover, his death was caused by her own wants of him dead. The young girls are then forced to be raised under strict rule of their aunt.
This film is told by Anna (the middle child), through the eyes of the mother. The title Cria Cuervos comes from the spanish saying, "Cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos." which translates to "Raise ravens and they'll take your eyes out."
This is such a beautiful movie although the ending is quite ambiguous. I watched this movie with my mom and i think it was the first time we agreed on the quality of a foreign film. It reminded me so much of my mom while i was watching it and the only think i was left thinking when the movie was over was how so many people think that childhood is the best time of one's life yet, for many children, it could be the worst, just like for the character Anna.
9/10
Man, I would probably go crazy if I thought people were dying due to my mind. I think it is pretty weird how the girl is the one telling the story, but with her mother’s voice. Does this mean that ghosts exist? That her mother possessed her at some point? Imagine she did! Ha-ha, then I bet it was her mother who killed her father in a weird, magical way. Well, it sounds pretty cool. The name is pretty darn nice. But it reminds me of some other movie where a mom pretends she’s dead, but is almost discovered by her daughter, because she smells her farts ha-ha. They both include parents dying ha-ha… and it’s Spanish too.
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