Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio, Head of Hispanic Studies and co-director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image, will provide an introduction to the 2012 release Blancanieves on 14 November, focusing on the film’s themes and the career of Bilbao-born director Pablo Berger.
Blancanieves is a sensual and sophisticated retelling of the beloved Snow White fairytale, re-imagined as an homage to European silent cinema. It has been deservedly likened to the Oscar winning The Artist.
The blurb for the film reads: ‘Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother; she learned the art of bullfighting from her Matador father, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend…’
For more information on the film talk and showing, including booking details, please see the page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian/events/cinema/2013/November/2013-11-blancanieves.html