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Nora (Aura Garrido) has just won a Goya and has a promising future. In her life two women, also actresses who had great careers in entertainment, they have been her fundamental pillars: her controlling grandmother Magui (Magüi Mira) and her mother Cecilia (Emma Súarez), a failed actress who has spent her entire life keeping a deep secret. Then Nora is hired to perform Chekhov's play 'The Seagull' directed by an accredited stage actor (Francesc Garrido), his ex-stepfather .
Irony, excess, or satire are intertwined with family melodrama to speak beyond the world of actors, family relationships, outstanding obligations , secrets and lies, along with jealousy and envy as well. The famous writer Elvira Lindo, accompanied by Daniela Fejerman (Mamá enRedes), gets behind the camera for the first time. Starring Aura Garrido (El Dia Del Mañana), Emma Suarez (Julieta), and the theater actress Magui Mira. They perform Nora, a prestigious, awarded young actress with the two pillars of her life: her grandmother Magüi and her mother Cecilia. But Nora discovers that her mother keeps a secret that has marked her for life. Addresses the tensions between three generations of women, all of whom are actresses at different stages of their lives and careers, who nevertheless have something in common: their profound family ties. It tries to intermingle, without much success, the lives of these three women with the aim of extracting some interesting result. The outcome is a commendable attempt to draw up biting dialogues, to analyze the human psyche in three different states of the actress's life and to try to demonstrate all the bad things that lousy communication can trigger, fueled largely by certain quarrels or envies that should be able to be easily resolved when it comes to family.
The film shot in Pamplona and Madrid is greatly benefited by a great main cast, Aura Garrido, Emma Súarez, along with great supporting actors, such as: Victor Clavijo, Francesc Garrido, Magui Mira, Carlos Olalla and special mention for the veteran Pedro Mari Sánchez, an actor who has been performing tirelessly since he was a child until today, here playing a veteran homosexual actor and who is interviewed by none other than TV Presenter Jorge Javier Vázquez and he even sings a 'Revista' song.
The base material was somewhat decent and enjoyable, but the theatricalization of the context is intended to be such that at times it becomes a cheap, simple and easy melodrama, including a couple of attractive and decisive flashbacks. The reiteration of concepts, the slow-paced and the writing of some rather weak dialogues make this film a work that aims to cover a lot, but does not deliver what it promised.
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Daniela Fejerman and Elvira Lindo. Although he had already written the scripts for other films such as 'The first night of my life', 'Plenilunio' and , of course, 'Manolito Gafotas', the task of directing was completely new for Lindo. While Daniela Féjerman is a specialist in this type of friendly comedies. Daniela is a craftswoman , writer and fimmaker as cinema as TV , such as : "Semen una historia de amor" , "7 minutos" , "Alguien que cuide de mí" , "La Montaña Rusa" , "El sindrome de Ulises" , among others. Rating : Average, 5/10 . Only for hardcore Spanish dramatic comedy enthusiasts.
Irony, excess, or satire are intertwined with family melodrama to speak beyond the world of actors, family relationships, outstanding obligations , secrets and lies, along with jealousy and envy as well. The famous writer Elvira Lindo, accompanied by Daniela Fejerman (Mamá enRedes), gets behind the camera for the first time. Starring Aura Garrido (El Dia Del Mañana), Emma Suarez (Julieta), and the theater actress Magui Mira. They perform Nora, a prestigious, awarded young actress with the two pillars of her life: her grandmother Magüi and her mother Cecilia. But Nora discovers that her mother keeps a secret that has marked her for life. Addresses the tensions between three generations of women, all of whom are actresses at different stages of their lives and careers, who nevertheless have something in common: their profound family ties. It tries to intermingle, without much success, the lives of these three women with the aim of extracting some interesting result. The outcome is a commendable attempt to draw up biting dialogues, to analyze the human psyche in three different states of the actress's life and to try to demonstrate all the bad things that lousy communication can trigger, fueled largely by certain quarrels or envies that should be able to be easily resolved when it comes to family.
The film shot in Pamplona and Madrid is greatly benefited by a great main cast, Aura Garrido, Emma Súarez, along with great supporting actors, such as: Victor Clavijo, Francesc Garrido, Magui Mira, Carlos Olalla and special mention for the veteran Pedro Mari Sánchez, an actor who has been performing tirelessly since he was a child until today, here playing a veteran homosexual actor and who is interviewed by none other than TV Presenter Jorge Javier Vázquez and he even sings a 'Revista' song.
The base material was somewhat decent and enjoyable, but the theatricalization of the context is intended to be such that at times it becomes a cheap, simple and easy melodrama, including a couple of attractive and decisive flashbacks. The reiteration of concepts, the slow-paced and the writing of some rather weak dialogues make this film a work that aims to cover a lot, but does not deliver what it promised.
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Daniela Fejerman and Elvira Lindo. Although he had already written the scripts for other films such as 'The first night of my life', 'Plenilunio' and , of course, 'Manolito Gafotas', the task of directing was completely new for Lindo. While Daniela Féjerman is a specialist in this type of friendly comedies. Daniela is a craftswoman , writer and fimmaker as cinema as TV , such as : "Semen una historia de amor" , "7 minutos" , "Alguien que cuide de mí" , "La Montaña Rusa" , "El sindrome de Ulises" , among others. Rating : Average, 5/10 . Only for hardcore Spanish dramatic comedy enthusiasts.