Cata and her sister Eva are spending the summer with their grandparents. When the grandmother dies after a fall the family is shaken. One day Cata tries on her grandmothers clothes. She begins to feel closer to her. She also begins to take on the place of her grandmother
This is a beautiful and beautifully acted look at the loss of a loved one and how that alters ourselves and the people around us. It is a film that takes us on a journey into grief that we don't usually see.
Told in a mannered style, it's clear that this film is about something. shot so that every image is erfectly composed to look like something you'd hang on a wall or see in a magazine this is film with a kind of hyper reality. For me this resulted in a film that I like agreat deal but which I didn't love. Director Lucia Alenar Inglesias is very much trying to make a point and while it doesn't kill the film it does keep us at arms length from the story.
Reservations aside, it is worth a look.
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