Also known as “Cria Cuervos” or “Raising Crows”. This moody,. 1974, transhistorical drama by A Suares stars Geraldine Chaplin and a set of fine actors. Looks at a young Spanish girl’s trauma around her mother’s (Chaplin) death in the 1950s from a long disease and the philandering and emotional distance of her husband. Shortly thereafter the young daughter attempts to kill the husband. He dies in the sack with his best friend’s wife and the daughter believes she has succeeded What follows examines the repression of the individual (and women in particular) in Spanish society. It looks at fascism as the backdrop and most extreme case of this national stultification of the individual and women in particular. A proto-feminist parable. Very atmospheric and moody. Chaplin plays both the mother and the young girl grown up. Children are children or adults. Surreal in their ability to overhear, be present, and never seen in adult conflicts. A troubling film. Very. atmospheric about bourgeois patterns of repression in this society