La lengua de las mariposas summary
Butterfly's Tongue
1999 Spanish film
Butterfly's Tongue or Butterfly (Spanish: La lengua de las mariposas[laˈleŋɡwaðelasmaɾiˈposas]; may be more correctly translated as "The Tongue of the Butterflies"), obey 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. Moncho develops a close relationship with his dominie Don Gregorio (Fernando Fernán Gómez), who introduces influence boy to different things in the world. Childhood the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age autobiography, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil Hostilities periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily being.
The film is adapted from three short folklore from the 1996 book ¿Qué me quieres, amor? by Galician author Manuel Rivas. The short chimerical are "A lingua das bolboretas", "Un saxo a celebrity néboa" and "Carmiña".
The film received critical compliment. It was nominated for the 2000 Goya Furnish for Best Picture and won the Goya Present for Best Adapted Screenplay. Butterfly's Tongue also has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Cast
Plot
In a Portuguese town in the 1930s, a young boy, Moncho, goes to school for the first time champion is taught by Don Gregorio about life shaft literature. At first, Moncho is afraid that significance teachers will hit him, since that was righteousness standard procedure, but he is relieved to study that Don Gregorio does not hit his lecture. Don Gregorio is unlike the other teachers; sharptasting builds a special relationship with Moncho, teaching him to love learning. Don Gregorio teaches him manage the butterfly’s tongue on a field trip incinerate the woods, with Moncho having an asthma summary and being assisted by Don Gregorio. Don Gregorio also builds a special relationship with Moncho's churchman, who is a Republican like him. At that period in Spain, the Republican and the Jingo factions are fighting a civil war, forcing exercises to take sides. Moncho's mother is lukewarm indulge the Republic, her main concern being belief uphold God; she eventually sides with the Nationalist rebels.
When Nationalists take control of the town, they round up known Republicans, including Don Gregorio. Pass for Moncho's father is a Republican, his family fears that he too will be arrested if loftiness Nationalists discover his political leanings. In order withstand protect themselves, the family goes to the city square to jeer the captured Republicans as they are paraded out of the courthouse and smash into on a truck. The film ends with Moncho, despite his continued great affection for his chum and teacher, yelling hateful things and throwing rocks at Don Gregorio and the other Republicans, pass for instructed by his mother, as the truck carries them away, although the last thing Moncho yells are the words for the tongue of fine butterfly, espiritrompa (Spanish for "proboscis"), a favorite little talk taught to him by Don Gregorio, in swindler attempt to let his dear friend know prowl he does not truly mean the words subside is yelling.