Blancanieves

Fantastic cinematography and some interesting twists of the classic fairytale, but I think the introduction was a bit too long and some plot points were meh. The shot of the girl's father in "heaven" was unintentionally hilarious lol

Such a beautifully shot movie. I wasn't entirely obsessed with the story, but the cinematography is simply astounding.

What a nice film for film buffs! The modern B&W silent trend inspired by The Artist, meets Saura, meets Almodovar, meets fairytales. The first half of the film was close to perfection, sublime storytelling through images alone, a visual feast with an exotic new flavour. I loved the traditional Spanish heart of the film - Bullfighting and Flamenco. But after the dwarves arrived, the story stuttered towards its too-familiar ending. A great effort only slightly marred by its own cleverness.

This feels far more like an actual silent film than The Artist, which came out the previous year. While the latter film (which I also liked) felt like a gimmicky novelty, this one feels more like an honest attempt to make a silent film with modern cameras. It's what I imagine silent films might look like now if sound and color had never been invented. The shot of the shadow of the bull later in the movie is marvelous and many of the transitions (moon to communion wafer, etc) are a lot of fun.

Neither a clumsy aping of silent film nor a soullessly pedantic exercise in recreation. Except for the art nouveau design of the intertitles, which feels a bit gimmicky, Blancanieves doesn't seem to be trying very hard to evoke actual silent film. It's totally comfortable being a modern movie that happens to be in silent 1.33 B&W. The score is fantastic.

I know there's a lot of love out there for this one. I did not love it. I don't think I even liked it. Much like "The Artist", I did not understand the reasons for doing this as a silent film. I understand that's it's set in the 20's, but it doesn't really use any of the basic tropes of silent films, nor does it particularly look like a silent film short of being shot in black and white. It really just hampered the ability to tell the story for no apparent reason.

Beautiful homage to the best of silent cinema, with a few surprises as well.

A realist retelling that perhaps loses its way a touch when it has to accommodate elements like the seven dwarves but is otherwise charming.

Captivating and stylish old fashioned silent story telling.

Way too saddening and unnecessarily so, sentimentally manipulative and predictable. Everything is so dramatic, yet nothing generates genuine emotion derived from actual interest for the heroes, but reflexive, primitive emotion because of the huge amount of tragicalness instead. The characters are superficial and one-sided, while the lightheartedness with which the issue of child slavery is presented is irritating. The only way to view this film is as a fairytale and nothing more.

A technically proficient but sporadically engaging Spanish-flavored retelling of Snow White that doesn't transcend its own conceit. Pablo Berger's tweaking of the famed fairy tale had all the essential elements needed to come up with something notable. Unfortunately, he is ultimately too in love with the film's aesthetics, thus, failing to mine for deeper truths.

Wonderful in every way.

The best Snow White we've seen this past year by far. Intelligent, creative and extremely well-made. It's a fantastic idea to make Prince Charming one of the dwarves.

It looks beautiful and the actors are engaging but the story is predictable even beyond the traditional elements of the fairytale.

Wonderful adaptation of Snow White, done in silent-film style and set in 20s Spain, where the daughter (Macarena Garcia) of a crippled bullfighter and a flamenco dancer is victimized by her evil stepmother (Maribel Verdu), and falls in with a troupe of bullfighting dwarves. There's great gallows humor, a plucky pet rooster, gorgeous B&W cinematography, a fine score, a wonderful villain in Verdu--and some real emotional weight. Marvelously directed by Pablo Berger. Commendably bittersweet finale.

Falters only when the (mostly excellent) musical score gets too close to the visuals. Most unusual about this isn't its silent-film conceit (employed perfectly) but the atypical arc from grim drama into comedy.

Aralik '12, randevu ist. film fest. & "Blancanieves'i gordukten sonra, 'sessiz sinemaya saygi durusu'nun da bokunun cikarilacagina olan inancim pekisti." demisti Iskender. Hakli.