When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments.
Acting
Conchita Montes simmers with restrained rebellion.
Production
Cramped apartment becomes psychological prison.
Director
Edgar Neville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neville adapted this from his own novel, essentially fictionalizing his observations of postwar Spanish bourgeois suffocation.
Released during Francoist censorship, the film's critique of repressive domesticity had to hide in plain sight as 'family drama.'
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