Shot in 1975, as General Franco lay dying, Saura’s masterpiece centres on an eight-year-old orphan who believes she’s poisoned her authoritarian father, a military man whom she blames for the death of her adored mother. This darkly unsettling and deeply touching story is one of cinema’s most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child’s fantasy-imbued reality.
Cría Cuervos
Directed by Carlos Saura