Blancanieves

This Spanish homage to the silent European cinema of the 1920s is quite effective at recreating the look and feel of films from that era, but falls into the trap of being more concerned with recreating a specific visual style than finding new meaning in an old story. The achievement in creating a silent film a full century after the invention of talkies never rises above gimmick level. That said, this modern update of the Snow White fairytale set in Seville, with most of the main characters as bullfighters--including the dwarfs!--is well cast, well shot and has a wonderful flamenco-inspired musical score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.