Four minutes, zero words, one painting — and somehow you're SOBBING.
A reunion between a mother and her pregnant daughter, who need a moment to recognize themselves and to understand that they will live together again in a new situation for both of them. An exercise made by the author during her second trimester at the London Film School, inspired by the painting "La Coiffure" by Edgar Degas.
Direction
Simón's second-trimester intuition — she IS the material.
Cinematography
Degas reborn: bodies in domestic space, light as emotion.
Acting
Windle and Blecker say everything with posture and breath.
Director
Carla Simón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Simón would later direct 'Alcarràs' and 'Summer 1993' — this is her origin story, made with her actual family members.
The Degas reference isn't pretentious art-claiming; Simón literally restages the painting's triangular composition of female bodies in intimate labor.
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