Blancanieves (2013)
91%RT Audience Score: 84%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 2 Oscars
13 wins & 33 nominations total
Smartly written and beautiful to behold, Blancanieves uses its classic source material to offer a dark tale, delightfully told.
Blancanieves is like a Spanish version of Snow White, but with a twist. It’s filmed in black and white, with all the dialogue shown through intertitles, making it feel like a classic silent film. The cinematography is stunning, and the score is beautiful. It’s a visual spectacle that will leave you enchanted and invested in the characters. Plus, who doesn’t love a good fairytale with a little bit of mystery and tension thrown in? It’s a rare cinematic treat that will make your heart beat faster and leave you feeling truly magical.
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Quiraing, Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sensuality
Year of Release
2012
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Sep 3, 2013
Genre(s)
Drama/Fantasy
Keyword(s)
starring Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Macarena García, Sofia Oria, directed by Pablo Berger, written by Pablo Berger, drama, fantasy, PG-13, reviewed by J Hoberman, Mar Diestro-Dópido, Paul Byrnes, Kate Muir, David Parkinson, Anthony Quinn, David Bax, Richard Propes, Pamela Hutchinson, Debbie Lynn Elias, Mattie Lucas, Nicholas Bell, box office gross $218.8K, budget unknown, produced by Pablo Berger, Ibón Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal
Worldwide gross: $396,592,829
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $511,297,162
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 280
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 55,757,597
US/Canada gross: $155,332,381
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $200,258,300
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 349
US/Canada opening weekend: $56,217,700
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $72,477,232
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 127
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $170,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $219,168,152
Production budget ranking: 70
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $118,022,050
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $174,106,960
ROI to date (est.): 52%
ROI ranking: 1,140
Daniel Giménez Cacho – Antonio Villalta
Ángela Molina – Doña Concha
Pere Ponce – Genaro
Macarena García – Carmen, Blancanieves
Sofia Oria – Carmencita
Director(s)
Pablo Berger
Writer(s)
Pablo Berger
Producer(s)
Pablo Berger, Ibón Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
13 wins & 33 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (107) | Rotten (6)
Filmed in glamorous black and white, all dialogue furnished via intertitles, the movie is less a pastiche than The Artist and, at least initially, it’s not as precious.
February 22, 2019
J. Hoberman
ARTINFO.com
TOP CRITIC
The pleasure resides as much in the layers upon layers of references to film history, to Spanish history, to fairytales, to Hollywood entertainment, as it does in its story of a little girl who loses everything.
July 31, 2018
Mar Diestro-Dópido
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
It’s like watching a gorgeous tragi-comic opera written by Dickens and co-directed by Fellini and Almodovar.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
TOP CRITIC
The film is exquisitely shot and Macarena Garcia is achingly gorgeous as the fawn-eyed Carmen/Snow White.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Kate Muir
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
A Spanish take on Snow White that picks up where The Artist left off and shows the full elegance of silent filmmaking.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
No film this year will look as swooningly beautiful, its deep-focus monochrome vividly rendered by the cinematographer Kiko de la Rica, and not many will sound as good, either, thanks to a score by Alfonso de Vilallong.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Anthony Quinn
Independent (UK)
TOP CRITIC
It’s not just the people who look great. Most of these compositions look like photographs in an art gallery, yet manage not to forfeit their cinematic immediacy.
March 17, 2021
David Bax
Battleship Pretension
if you are an adventurous moviegoer able to fully surrender yourself to a full-on sensory experience then this is very likely one film that will completely sweep you away.
September 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
Blancanieves is a strange piece of work, but a precious one, however, so even if it lacks ambition, its integrity and beauty are to be treasured.
March 23, 2020
Pamela Hutchinson
Silent London
A visual spectacle cloaked in a beautiful melancholy, Blancanieves is filmmaking at its finest and a true masterpiece.
November 27, 2019
Debbie Lynn Elias
Behind The Lens
The kind of rare cinematic treat that makes the heart beat faster at the recognition of something truly magical in the way that only movies can provide.
August 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row
Berger has managed to take a tale as old as time and enchant us to the point where we’re not only invested in the characters, but there’s tension and mystery as well.
July 24, 2019
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com…
Plot
Snow White, imprisoned daughter of the late king, escapes just as the Magic Mirror declares her the source of the Evil Queen’s immortality. The Queen sends her men, led by a local huntsman, to bring her back. But upon her capture, the huntsman finds he’s being played and turns against the Queen’s men, saving Snow White in the process. Meanwhile, Snow’s childhood friend, William, learns that she is alive and sets off to save her.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Macarena García, who plays Carmen/Blancanieves in the film, is a Spanish actress and singer who won the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in the film.
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