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- Though not exactly in the same league, "Butterfly's Tongue" has the same quality of stillness and - in its better scenes - of resonance as it slowly unfurls a story of growing up (but, naturally, not in the noisy manner of American screen kids), specifically the awakening of a young boy beginning school and experiencing life, all set against the impending doom of the Spanish Civil War.
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Oct 18, 1999 · Successfully coupling one of Spain’s oldest thesps with one of its youngest, Jose Luis Cuerda injects new life into the coming-of-age format with “The Butterfly’s Tongue,” which starts out ...
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Jul 26, 2000 · An often powerful, sometimes flat film about a young boy caught between the free spirit of his inspirational teacher and the new Fascists as Spain approaches Civil War.
Butterfly's Tongue or Butterfly (Spanish: La lengua de las mariposas [la ˈleŋɡwa ðe las maɾiˈposas]; may be more literally translated as "The Tongue of the Butterflies"), is a 1999 Spanish film directed by José Luis Cuerda. The film centers on Moncho (Manuel Lozano) and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936.
Dec 31, 1998 · Original Title: Butterfly’s Tongue. The son of a republican father (Uriarte) and a religious mother (Blanco), Moncho (Lozano) is terrified of the local schoolmaster (Fernan Gomez). But, instead...
Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray. There is a sting in the tail of this charming, sentimental tale of a shy eight-year-old asthmatic Spanish boy's rural education into the mysterious lives of grown ups.
Jul 28, 2000 · Set during the months before the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Butterfly's Tongue is a handsomely photographed, but rather sluggish coming-of-age drama. The story focuses on eight-year-old...
Sep 10, 2012 · Eight-year-old Moncho (Lozano) runs away from his first day in school, terrified that his teacher Don Gregorio (Fernán-Gómez) is a flogger. His concerns are misplaced and, once he's coaxed back...
