Mar Coll returns to cinema with Mothers Don’t
- The film, which is based on the book of the same title by Katixa Agirre about the fragility of motherhood, stars Oriol Pla and Laura Weissmahr and will be sold by Playtime
Mothers Don’t (Las madres no) is the new feature film from Mar Coll and marks the filmmaker’s return to cinema. Always with a focus on intimate relationships, she is acclaimed for Three Days with the Family [+see also:
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The film is inspired by the novel of the same name by Basque author Katixa Agirre (published in 2018) and tells the story of María, a young new mother and writer haunted by the case of another who coldly murdered her twin babies; writing about this scandal is the only way to understand her own radical experience of motherhood.
Its cast is headed by Laura Weissmahr (seen in titles such as Júlia ist [+see also:
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In the words of its director, "the protagonist is a repentant mother, an association of words that creates an automatic unease. How can you disown a baby: the most helpless, innocent and pure being there is? Well, you can. But motherhood has been so under-represented and so partially represented in often a softness that any dissonant experience has been buried by taboo.”
Mothers Don’t is a production by Escándalo Films and Elastica Films with the support of ICEC and ICAA, and the participation of RTVE and Movistar Plus+. It will be distributed in Spain by Elastica Films and its international sales will be handled by the French agency Playtime.
(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)
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