A girl from Seville who lost her mother at a young age learns the art of bullfighting from her renowned father only to have him stricken from her by her diabolical stepmother. Desperate and alone, she joins up with a caravan of dwarves where she continues her tutelage and faces her destiny. Blancanieves is both an imaginative refiguring of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and also an exceedingly well done silent picture throwback. Filmed on the heels of The Artist, it is crafted with at least as much passion, reverence, technical prowess, and general enthusiasm that in many ways it matches and even surpasses its immensely successful predecessor.
