Summary: In haunting memories, a woman relives the disturbing summer of her father's death. Outside her father's bedroom door, the nine-year-old Ana hears him making love to his best friend's wife, then take his last gasp of breath. When, years earlier, her mother died of cancer, Ana blamed her father; now she blames herself for his demise. In Saura's compelling vision of the child's world, past and present blend imperceptibly. Fantasy and reality become one as dead characters take their place beside the living. "Cria!" is graced by two remarkable actresses: Ana Torrent ("The Spirit of the Beehive") as the guilt-ridden girl and Geraldine Chaplin ("Peppermint Frappe") as both the grown-up Ana and her deceased mother.
Cria!
(1977)
