It’s against this backdrop of knee-jerk ignorance that Carla Simón has set her feature debut, the autobiographical drama Summer 1993, a movie about childhood marinated in confusion born from death.

Her movie is raw, unflinching and unafraid to ... Her life turned out all right, but “Summer 1993” is also a salve for the lost children who didn’t have it so well. More than that, it ...

Writer-director Carla Simón, whose gentle, poetic drama “Summer 1993” reflects on the time ... Anna (Paula Robles). (The movie was shot in the actual place where Simón was sent when she ...

And the feeling those actions rouse give the film “Summer 1993” a kind of dark undercurrent ... Carla Simón , a Catalan filmmaker whose movie played at February’s Spokane International ...

That’s all there is, plot-wise, to “Summer 1993,” but hardly all there is. It’s a film entirely lacking in pomp, but there’s a certain bravado in its delicate reservation. A tender and ...

"Summer 1993," paints a portrait not only of her own youth but of her generation. Shot in the village and at locations where she herself spent her childhood, the movie is filled with glints of a ...

Any emerging Spanish child actress is bound to be compared to Ana Torrent, who excelled exquisitely in Víctor Erice's The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) and Carlos Saura's Cría Cuervos (1976).

A hymn to the fragility and adaptability of children, who are much smarter than we give them credit for, 'Summer 1993' is a tender and intimate affair but it’s not a film one will hurry back to.