21st Edition – 17th Catalan Window
London premiere
dir. Mar Coll
with Laura Weissmahr, Oriol Plà, Giannina Fruttero
Spain | 2024 | 111 min
In Spanish, Catalan and French with English subtitles
Co-writer and director Mar Coll has adpapted the book by Basque writer Katixa Agirre’s novel Amek ez dute about Maria, a promising young writer and new mother struggling to adjust to motherhood and assuming her identity as a writer and the anxiety and frustration this is bringing to her life. When she stumbles upon the chilling headline of a French woman that drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub, her obsession will take her in a quest to try to understand the gruesome act.
Coll’s film is skillfully crafted and Weissmahr powerful performance has been widely acknowledged.