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Butterfly's Tongue [2000]
from Metrodome Distribution
starring Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte, Alexis de los Santos
directed by José Luis Cuerda

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• review of Butterly tongues
  A beautiful, touching, moving documentation of a young boy's growing relationship both with his teacher and the world around him that knocks the wind out of your sails and leaves you wounded. I'll take the last look on his teacher's face with me to the grave. "Sshh.. it's a story about love and freedom," says the man on the bicycle, according to screen writer, Rafael Azcona. This is a beautiful, hurtful film that I just can't get out of my head.

• Three elegant though provoking stories, but lacking synchronicity.
  This movie is based on three short stories from the same book, which are all experienced from the view point of an 8 year old boy, Moncho, but which are otherwise scarcely related. The story of the school teacher is touchingly portrayed, and Moncho is central to this story, but the story of the dog and the story of the wolf woman contain events which Moncho watches rather than participates in, and could perhaps have been better told from a closer viewpoint.
  The three stories themselves are simple but... more info

• Masterpiece
  Being the archetypal English monoglot (OK I know a few words of other languages but I'm not too hot) I almost dropped this from my rental list when I read the review that it had no subtitles (I can only assume that reviewer couldn't find them).
  How wrong that would have been as this was a mesmerising film. The characters were played by an exceptional cast who brought together every nuance of that time in rural Spain. The relationships between the characters - especially that of Monch and his teacher... more info

• No subtitles - beware
  I rented this DVD after reading the wonderful reviews and if you understand Spanish they were probably 100%. The film was to be beautifully filmed, the period style and location were relevant and the acting (particularly the children)seemed to be excellent and the film score delightful (5 star) there was no option for subtitles at all in the menu. I fast-forwarded and jumped the entire movie to get the gist. Very disappointing.

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