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Spoiler-free premise
A young girl and her sisters live with their strict aunt in Madrid while memories of their parents haunt the household.
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Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with sisters Irene and Maite after the deaths of their parents, under strict aunt Paulina. Present life, memories of mother María, imagined conversations, and Ana's belief in a poisonous powder overlap inside the family apartment.
Why it belongs
Through a child's memory, domestic silence, pop song repetition, and Ana Torrent's grave watchfulness, Cría Cuervos makes dictatorship's aftermath intimate.
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Ana Torrent's still gaze transforms misunderstanding into resistant imagination. Closed rooms, a rooftop, family photographs, a jar of powder, school rituals, and Jeanette's 'Porque te vas' let past and present coexist without markers.
