Lullaby

I knew absolutely nothing about this movie before I saw it. I only saw it because I just returned from a trip to Spain's Basque country (which I loved) and a "Basque Film Festival" was playing in my New York neighborhood. I thought this movie was terrific. At first, I thought it was going to be yet another whine about poor misunderstood and underappreciated women that the New York "non-profit" theatre has turned into a cliché. How can the poor put-upon thing handle all the stress? But, as it turned out, that's not what the movie ended up being. A young woman with a promising career has just had her first child by a man to whom she is not married. He has a promising career, too. The couple are happy, but she already feels the stress of trying to balance a relationship, a career, and a new baby all at the same time when her mate receives a lucrative job offer in another city. He thinks they can make it work, but she doesn't want him to take the job. But he does. The baby cries incessantly, despite her giving it constant attention. She goes to a coastal town to get some emotional support from her parents, but that turns out to be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire, as a load of new responsibilities tumbles down upon her unexpectedly. I can't tell more without giving away key plot points, but let's just say that it would be a challenging position for anyone to handle.

Cast and direction are excellent, with especially fine performances from Lala Costa as the new mother and Susi Sanchez as HER mother. Both ladies give Oscar-worthy performances. This movie has a lot to say about strength of character, where it comes from, and how it works. If you want car chases and explosions, look elsewhere. This is not that kind of movie. But if you're looking for an intelligent and sensitive film about what it is to be human in today's world, pounce.

¨Cinco lobitos¨ is an overtalking and dramatic film directed by the Biscayan filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa in 2022. A women's film to reflect on motherhood in both directions , it deals with Maia (Laia Costa) , who has just become a mother . It turns out that Amaia is a 35-year-old woman who has just had her first child. In the first weeks, her partner and her parents help her . But soon her parents leave and her partner has to be absent for work reasons. Overwhelmed by the incessant task of being her mother, Amaia decides to go to her parents' house , in a town on the Basque coast. Then the world collapses on her because the baby cries , and, at one point, her boyfriend (Bustamante) has to go to earn his wages , because there is something to eat that's why he's going to work abroad. Amaia has just given birth and leaves the hospital with her mother Begoña (Susi Sanchez) . She is a new mother , and , for the first time , she realizes the changes that this new baby is going to bring. She decides to return to her parents' (Ramón Barea , Susi Sánchez) house along the Basque coast home for guidance , after her partner is temporarily away. So that Begoña and Koldo can help her take care of the girl , but then things go wrong.

This brooding and some claustrophobic picture concerns the motherhood and family relationships , being stunningly played by a splendid team of actors : Laia Costa , Susi Sánchez , Ramón Barea and Mikel Bustamante. This fact itself makes me curious enough to downplay the ordinary topics and to not be distracted . The movie has the ability to show being a mother, being a daughter , being a grandmother, being a wife, being a lover, in addition to motherhood in both directions , the change of identities within the family structure ; it also raises how is shared functions in the family unit , the way of being of those men who do not find out about the "needs of those who live together", whether they are older and old-fashioned or young or restless entrepreneurs and to add problems the grandmother falls ill and the roles are then reversed . However , what happens after the first half hour, results to be quite tiring , everything is starting to be tiresome for me : the cliché Basque grandmother, the cliché desperate mother , the cliché non-existent father more than absent and the cliché of an annoying baby continuously crying . The director intends to provide a close look at motherhood, but rather she has done a peculiar sight at the perpetual infantilism of millennials who cannot take on the life difficulties .

Here stands out the colorful cinematography by cameraman Jon D. Domínguez shot on location in Bakio, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain , Bilbao, Mundaka, Bizkaia , Spain and Madrid . Cinco Lobitos was middlingly directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa in his film debut , as she previously made Shorts . It won the Biznaga de Oro for Best Spanish Film at the Malaga Film Festival, and its director won the Best Script Award. The actresses Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez, both co-stars, also received the 'ex aequo' award for Best Actress. Rating : 5/10. Average.

It all starts as a calm and very quiet story, we even think that this movie is another feminist farce that gets lost in the context of a family drama, however, the plot catches the viewer because any human being, regardless of gender, can relate to family and couple/marriage problems. This movie surprised me so much that I couldn't stop watching it... it's an invitation to realize that no matter how adult we are, we will still be our parents' children.

You may judge your parents as a child, but when you become and adult, is inevitable to identify yourself with the person that race you and loves you, no matter what.

Boring movie in which nothing memorable happens. Another attempt to be transcendent and what it does is bore people by telling them about the life of any of their neighbors, as if we didn't know it. What happens in the movie is a normal life for any Spaniard. The actors are very good, the script and the story totally vulgar. You see the movie and you stay, well, so what? What is the story? Who doesn't experience something similar? Does a movie deserve to be made telling the normal and ordinary slowly and boredom? I do not think so. And it is very nominated for the Goya. What a level Spanish cinema has!