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Recognition
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Screenings
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Actrius screened in 2001 at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in an American Cinematheque retrospective of the works of its director. The film had first screened at the same location in 1998. It was also shown at the 1997 Stockholm International Film Festival.
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Reception
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In Movie - Film - Review, Christopher Tookey wrote that though the actresses were "competent in roles that may have some reference to their own careers", the film "is visually unimaginative, never escapes its stage origins, and is almost totally lacking in revelation or surprising incident". Noting that there were "occasional, refreshing moments of intergenerational bitchiness", they did not "justify comparisons to All About Eve", and were "insufficiently different to deserve critical parallels with Rashomon". He also wrote that The Guardian called the film a "slow, stuffy chamber-piece", and that The Evening Standard stated the film's "best moments exhibit the bitchy tantrums seething beneath the threesome's composed veneers". MRQE wrote "This cinematic adaptation of a theatrical work is true to the original, but does not stray far from a theatrical rendering of the story."
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Awards and nominations
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1997, won 'Best Catalan Film' at Butaca Awards for Ventura Pons
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1997, won 'Best Catalan Film Actress' at Butaca Awards, shared by Núria Espert, Rosa Maria Sardà, Anna Lizaran, and Mercè Pons
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1998, nominated for 'Best Screenplay' at Goya Awards, shared by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and Ventura Pons
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References
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External links
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as archived 17 February 2009 (Spanish)
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1997 films
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1997 drama films
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Spanish films
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Catalan-language films
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Films set in Barcelona
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Films directed by Ventura Pons
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Spanish drama films
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Animalia is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. It was originally published in 1986, followed by a tenth anniversary edition in 1996, and a 25th anniversary edition in 2012. Over four million copies have been sold worldwide. A special numbered and signed anniversary edition was also published in 1996, with an embossed gold jacket. Synopsis
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Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom (A is for alligator and armadillo, B is for butterfly, etc.) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words. The illustrations contain many other objects beginning with that letter that the reader can try to identify (however, there are not necessarily "a thousand things, or maybe more", as the author states). As an additional challenge, the author has hidden a picture of himself as a child in every picture.
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Here are some of the things in each picture that are truly different (the alligator in the A section is wearing an apron featuring the alphabet, which the book is about, and this section also features the author's home country, Australia):
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Note: This list is incomplete. A
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1. Astronaut
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2. Album
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3. Admiral
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4. Archdiocese
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5. Actor
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6. Actress
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7. Aborigine
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8. Athlete
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9. Acrobat
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10. Apple
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11. Acorn
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12. Apricot
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13. Avocado
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14. Adder
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15. Albatross
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16. Antelope (this is actually a pronghorn, which is not a true antelope, so it belongs in the P section)
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17. Anteater
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18. Aardvark
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19. Anvil
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20. Afghan hound
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21. Affenpinscher
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22. Airedale terrier
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23. Aqueduct
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24. Ant
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25. Abacus
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26. Asparagus
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27. Artichoke
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28. Accordion
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29. Anchor
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30. Anemone
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31. Axe
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32. Angel
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33. Algebra
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34. Atlas
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35. Apron
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