Release Date: Mar 19, 1997 Wide
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A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him spark his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama from writer-director Montxo Armendáriz. The hometown of nine-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu and his brother Juan (Alvaro Nagone) is a rural farming village in the early 1960s. Their father, they are told, accidentally killed himself while cleaning his gun, and the room where the death occurred has been declared off limits to the boys. Juan tells his younger brother that
Mar 19, 1997 Wide
Nov 14, 2000
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I don't think I've ever seen a movie that so captured the idea of how strange, mysterious, frightening and even incomprehensible the world is to us in early childhood.
The whole thing in the summary about seeing the world through the eyes of a child was very correct when it came to this movie. i enjoyed it a lot. it was funny at times but still very serious and human and everything.
February 9, 2007Super Reviewer
(****): Wonderful film! All of the aspects of the film are excellent from the acting to the story. This is a heart-warming film that requires more than one viewing.
December 12, 2006
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