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Let's be realistic.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The acting in this movie is really good.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars. Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars. Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.Disgusting. This film is guilty of animal cruelty. I am ashamed that it will represent my country in the Oscars.

This movie is a little bit overrated. In my opinion it received the Goya award NOT for its quality but because of political reasons and string-pulling, like many other things here.The movie is not too bad, sometimes boring, the best thing it has is the gracefulness that comes from the kids, whose acting is just right, maybe overacting, and the scenery and customs are right too. Sometimes you feel you are in a theater instead of watching a movie.The story is absolutely not original, we are tired of always the same, the dictatorship. Spain suffered from a civil war and a dictatorship that clashed different social classes and political convictions. But nowadays some people tries to rewrite it and show it as a war against Cataluña, a region of Spain that has never been a nation or state before, though some try to distort history.We had a bad period but we need to go on.

I saw this film at Noordelijk Filmfestival 2011 (in Leeuwarden, province of Friesland NL). We know very little details from the Spanish civil war, and the period after that under Franco. Our history lessons did not cover it at all. But we could deduce a broad overview from the ingredients that were offered to us throughout the developments in this film. History lessons were passed to us along the line, piece by piece.A lot of characters are introduced in the story, none of them redundant, even the minor roles have their place and cannot be left out. Their evenly dosed appearances were always understandable, never letting us feel overwhelmed. I was very happy this to be different from some costume dramas, where the viewer looses control and cannot remember how all these persons relate to each other and how they fit in the plot. No problems like that in this case.Our sympathies with the main characters had to move from time to time, given new facts coming to light, or new suspicions that were seeded by not-so-innocent bystanders. Choices that seemed apparent at first, changed perspective from time to time. I eagerly followed those new directions, and could not escape from the story line (even if I wanted to). It definitely proves that I got involved in the motives of the characters. Well done, obviously having an ingeniously constructed script to work from.All in all, I found the 108 minutes spent very well. The story has much drive, and its outcome cannot be predicted, maintaining the whodunit tension throughout. Also, the film shows several characters to have a better side, in spite of making a negative impression at first, for instance the school teacher. Reasons enough that the film can be attractive for a broad audience. However, I fear that the "official" announcement text won't work on the casual reader.

This film swept the board at this year's Goyas (Spanish cinema awards), but after last years Cell 211 ( an enjoyable but unremarkable prison drama) did the same, I wasn't expecting too much. I'd enjoyed Villaronga's disturbing Aro Tolbukhin, but I wasn't expecting this. One of the best opening sequences you'll see all year leads to a mystery, experienced through the eyes of one boy, that reveals lies, conspiracy and the dark secrets in the heart of a rural Catalan village a few years after the end of the Civil War. It's magnificently done, and the performances of the children match those of actors such as Sergi Lopez (whose role echoes that in Pan's Labyrinth),Eduard Fernández and Marina Comas.Scenes such as the boy's father instructing him to uphold his ideals and walk tall, or a powerless mother pleading her husband's innocence, are familiar from more commercial films. Here they are brutally undermined until nothing is left but pitiless self interest. A chilling study of how war and poverty create monsters.