The mother who never was — a ghost story told in whispers and what-ifs.
Josephine Nilsson dies trying to terminate her second pregnancy after giving up for adoption her first child, Carl T. Dreyer. A gender and class story about the clandestinity of female desire.
Direction
Cubas frames silence like other directors frame explosions.
Acting
Ruiz de la Prada's face holds decades of unlived life.
Cinematography
Light that feels borrowed from Dreyer's own films.
Director
Nuria Cubas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cubas joins a wave of Spanish female directors reclaiming erased maternal histories, from Erice to Almodóvar's shadows.
The title's cruel joke: she gets top billing she never lived to see, in a film about exactly that theft.
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