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Director: Vicente Aranda
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From Time Out Film Guide
Aranda's big number on the Spanish Civil War deserves praise for its feminist perspective on the course of the 1936-7 revolution, when women's liberation was a logical, if hardly well-recognised, constituent of the libertarian ideals that the Spanish working class rose up to assert. Seen through the eyes of Maria (Gil), an initially fragile nun driven into a female militia by the revolution in Barcelona, it also takes a thoroughly circumscribed stance on the role of religion in this history. The film crams and elides both events and characters, and, after a brave start, loses its direction and our involvement - particularly problematic is a sudden final outburst of brutal violence.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Manfredi Traxler, Thasi Vanhuysse
Cast: Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Adriana Gil, Loles Leon, Laura Maña, Miguel Bosé full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 131 mins
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