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7.0 1h 38m

Summer 1993

"A new family. A new world."

After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

Top Cast

  • Laia Artigas

    Laia Artigas

    Frida

  • Paula Robles

    Paula Robles

    Anna

  • Bruna Cusí

    Bruna Cusí

    Marga

  • David Verdaguer

    David Verdaguer

    Esteve

  • Fermí Reixach

    Fermí Reixach

    Avi

  • Montse Sanz

    Montse Sanz

    Lola

  • Isabel Rocatti

    Isabel Rocatti

    Àvia

  • Berta Pipó

    Berta Pipó

    Tieta Àngela

  • Etna Campillo

    Etna Campillo

    Irene

Overview

After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

Rating

7.0 / 10
225 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • badelf
    badelf
    10 Mar 27, 2023

    I have now watched the second of both Carla Simón's feature-length, award-winning films, and I have to say: I am in complete awe of her talent as a story-teller and a director. Even if (like Rainer Maria Rilke) this is the best she's got, then (also like said poet), it's more than enough. In Spain, after Franco finally died, a counter-culture movement, la movida madrileña, exploded into a party of art, music, film (Almodovar for one), and of course sex and drugs. As a direct consequence, so many people contracted HIV and died in late 80s and 90s (not only in Spain). This is a story of one child (Frida - autobiographically then, Carla Simón herself) who lost both parents, and was suddenly forced to adopt a new mother and father. The painful experience of adopting to a new family is told from the child's POV. It's heart-rending. It's beautiful. And it's brilliant: For 90 minutes, I kept asking myself "How in the hell did this director elicit those performances from not one, but TWO very young actors?" Everything about the movie rises to that level.

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