2023-08-02 03:29:00
The Catalan Jaime Rosales chronicles the romantic relationships of a young Barcelonan with a bittersweet distance, which leaves an unpleasant taste.
A single mother, a 22-year-old girl from Barcelona tries to make ends meet with fighting spirit and good humor. The film chronicles by ellipse three of his romantic relationships: the toxic bastard, the old flame, the good match, erasing the particular circumstances to keep only the highlights of these couples, in their universal generality. A prism assumed against the times, since the heroine is strictly defined by the passage of men in her life. The filmmaker Jaime Rosales (marked signature of a new Spanish auteur cinema fifteen years ago) justifies it by presenting her as a love addict who always burns her wings. No otherworldliness here, but on the theme of marital alienation and the spleen of “unmarried mothers”, a puritanical unconscious, perhaps. The reverse is to reduce its existence to this image of valiant (and pretty) “little” bit of a woman, relying a lot on the charm of its actress Anna Castillo. The film’s naturalistic breathing carries away the rest with a bittersweet grace, imposing everyday life as a pure presence – one would have to say to prevent oneself from finding it platounet. More disagreeable is the sinisterly familialist happy ending on which these Wild Sunflowers close. Survivor of a depression and still knocked up, Julia finds herself brought back to her destiny as a childbearing body as if to an ironic return to the order of things, without us understanding what had to be learned from all that has preceded.
Wild Sunflowers by Jaime Rosales with Anna Castillo, Oriol Pla… 1h46.
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