Sinopsis
Fiction. Janine’s life seems to be going very well, but everything falls apart the night when, after defending a woman from being stolen, she is assaulted and witnesses a rape on the underground. She runs away, calls the police and files a complaint for being robbed, but she does not dare to make a full statement on everything that has happened to her … From this moment onwards nothing will be the same. She flees to the town where her father now lives. There, she meets Pierre, a somewhat ambiguous man. Janine tries to hide all her injuries and fears and tries to relax in an environment not as idyllic as it seems. Caught by her self-destructive spiral, she lets herself be carried away by her attraction to Pierre. The French man awakens his darker side up to the moment she hits rock bottom. Janine must then face reality as the only way out and give herself the opportunity to live fully, to move forward.
Aguilar is a director and screenwriter born in Barcelona. After studying Journalism at the UAB she is part of the ESCAC -The Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia- first graduating, specializing in Direction. She completes her training with script courses given by Fernando Trueba, Joaquim Jordà and Gabriel Auer and direction courses given by Bob McAndrew and Juan José Campanella. In 2007 Escándalo Films, the ESCAC’s production company launched, within the program Opera Prima, her first feature film Lo mejor de mí. The film is granted twenty national and international awards, including the Independent Critics Award and the Leopard for Best Actress to Marian Álvarez at the Locarno International Film Festival. After the premiere of her first feature film, Roser Aguilar returns to short films with Ahora no puedo (2011) receiving another 32 awards, including the Gaudí award for the best short film in 2012.
Wednesday 4th April: 21.00h
Sala Berlanga, Fundación SGAE
Section: Ibero-American Women Directors Panorama
Year of Production: 2017
Running Time: 91′
Country: Spain
Original Language: Catalan
Director: Roser Aguilar
Cast: Laia Marull, Bruno Todeschini, Sergio Caballero, Francesc Orella, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Mikel Iglesias, Empar Ferrer and María Ribera
Producers: Oriol Marcos and Paloma Mora
Production Companies: Setmàgic audiovisual
Main festivals and awards: Festivals in France, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba and the Czech Republic
