A shopgirl, her dying mother, and a poet who might ruin everything — Spanish melodrama at its most devastating.
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Acting
Susana Canales carries unbearable exhaustion in every frame.
Direction
Mur Oti's claustrophobic frames trap you in Emilia's suffocating world.
Director
Manuel Mur Oti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's regime, the film's oppressive atmosphere mirrors Spain's cultural stagnation — desire itself becomes political resistance.
Fernando Rey would later achieve international fame in The French Connection and Viridiana, making this early role fascinating to revisit.
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