Forastera
2020 · 19m · Spain
Directed by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A sixteen-year-old named Antonia spends her summer in Mallorca following her grandmother's death, gradually donning the dead woman's clothing and discovering she holds an uncanny power over her grief-stricken grandfather — blurring who is inhabiting whom.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A teenage girl starts cosplaying as her dead grandmother and her grandfather just… goes with it — that ambiguity between grief ritual and full-on haunting is exactly the uncomfortable territory worth putting in the vault.
Semaine de la Critique selection in the lineage of Lucrecia Martel — the dress-up game's refusal to resolve between grief and possession is the film's whole, considerable argument.
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias refusing to separate identity-grief from possession — a teenage girl wearing her dead grandmother's clothes, never resolving who's inhabiting whom. Semaine de la Critique selection. The unresolved ambiguity is the discipline.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival — Critics' Week (La Semaine de la Critique) 2020