La hija de la peluquera
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Emma Worthington Jordà
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Cecilia takes over her mother's hair salon while her mother is ill, although in truth she has great dreams she wants to fulfill — and wonders whether that will be enough to change her reality.
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The scouts
It's a perfectly composed coming-of-age story about inherited duty vs. personal ambition — which is to say it's exactly the premise everyone expects, and Worthington Jordà executes it competently but without the teeth to make it genuinely provocative.
A formally restrained meditation on intergenerational obligation, shot with the kind of deliberate framing and tonal consistency that rewards a second viewing; the salon becomes a contained space for intimate family drama in the best European tradition.
The entire film hinges on a single moment of Cecilia's face in the mirror — not deciding, just looking — and that refusal to telegraph her internal conflict is the choice that transforms what could've been sentimental into something genuinely unsettling and true.