A 13-minute fever dream where Flaubert meets anorexia in a gallery of ghosts.
This is the visit to an exhibition of painting and photography with the help of a girl named Claudia, and a sickness called Anorexia.
Direction
Valiente weaponizes 13 minutes like a surgical strike.
Acting
Dueñas before she was famous, already devastating.
Cinematography
Gray light that feels like a medical examination.
Director
Pablo Valiente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Valiente's time at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, this predates Spanish cinema's later boom in eating disorder narratives by over a decade.
The gallery setting weaponizes the male gaze tradition—Baudelaire's 'lover of crowds' becomes medical diagnosis, Flaubert's Emma a diagnostic category.
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