On 20 February Isabel Coixet began shooting her new film, Un amor [+leggi anche:
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Her new feature film stars Laia Costa (recent winner of the Goya for Best Actress for Lullaby [+leggi anche:
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It tells the story of how, after escaping her oppressive life in the city, Nat (played by Laia Costa) finds refuge in the small village of La Escapa in the depths of rural Spain. In a rustic and dilapidated house, accompanied by a wild and ragged dog, the young woman tries to rebuild her life again. After facing the hostility of her landlord and the distrusting locals, Nat finds herself accepting an unsettling sexual proposal from her neighbour Andreas (Hovik Keuchkerian). From this strange and confusing encounter comes an obsessive passion that will consume the girl completely and make her question the kind of woman she thinks she is.

Un amor –to be filmed over five and a half weeks on location in La Rioja– is a production from Marisa Fernández Armenteros for Buenapinta Media, Sandra Hermida and Belén Atienza for Perdición Films (who have Juan Antonio Bayona's La sociedad de la nieve [+leggi anche:
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