A Must See Film

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2006)

This film deserves the Oscar for best film never mind best foreign film. The acting by all participants is an example to all aspiring actors. I went in to see this film with some trepidation but was amazed by the sheer simplicity of the story and the characterisations that carried the story throughout the film. The director has managed to incorporate both fantasy and reality in such away as to entice the audience to believe in his story. One word of question is that I think Spanish film makers are now attempting to rewrite Spanish history via films portraying the civil war, in such a way that the Republican army should have won this war and the Facists should never have come to power in the first place.