Unbelievable characters, predictable plot

Rating: 4/10 (1 October 2016)

The film depicts how people were coping with the circumstances of 1940ish Spain and how a 12 year old girl tries to get by in a hostile environment with the help of fairy tales and her own imagination.
Sadly the characters and their actions are unbelievable and exaggerated, sometimes borderline stupid, which annuls any sympathy you might feel for them. Characters are 2 dimensional, and their motivations are even less built, even though the creators had 2 hours to portray them.
The plot is well built and interesting with a dual layer story of the real world and the protagonist's dream world. The cinematography is well done, especially the blurry differentiation between the visuals of dream and real world.
Overall a disappointment, the mediocre acting, the unbelievable characters and their lack of common sense ruins the overall experience.
4/10